As continued fighting raises fears that Sudan could plunge deeper into chaos, foreign governments are scrambling to get their diplomats and other citizens safely out of the country.
Most countries deployed military transport aircraft to fly people out, including France which used its airbase in neighboring Djibouti for the airlift. But not all is going smoothly - about 2,000 British nationals remain in Sudan, and many complain that their government isn't giving them enough information about evacuation plans.
Although some flights included people of various nationalities, here's a country-by-country accounting of evacuation efforts based on information available so far:U.S. special operations forces used helicopters to ferry 70 U.S. embassy personnel out of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, early Sunday. The U.S. government has told some 16,000 US citizens in Sudan that they need to fend for themselves and that there won't be mass evacuations.
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