U.S. government personnel in Sudan to be evacuated, sources say

U.S. government personnel in Sudan are to be evacuated, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. The evacuation of roughly 70 American citizens working for the U.S. government in Sudan has been in the planning stages all week, and Sudan's military said Saturday that they expected countries including the U.S. to begin evacuating "in the coming hours." 

U.S. evacuation from Khartoum will include roughly 70 U.S. personnel but that the hundreds of American citizens in Sudan – 500 was the number shared with congressional sources - will not be included, sources familiar with the U.S. planning have told CBS News. The State Department acknowledges that some records show 16,000 US citizens may be in Sudan but officials consider those figures to be inflated.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Friday operations were still underway at that time to bring U.S. government personnel to the relative safety of the Embassy, and that American civilians would be responsible for their own safety and exit from the country.