Large number of troops are deployed by the US near Sudan in preparation for an ambassador departure.

WASHINGTON( Reuters )- As new serious gunfire broke out on Thursday, the United States is getting ready to take a sizable number of extra soldiers to its foundation in Djibouti in case of an eventual departure from Sudan.

Speaking under the condition of anonymity, the international declined to provide more details.

More than 330 people have died as a result of the violent potential war that started last weekend under the command of soldiers led by two former allies of Sudan’s’s ruling government, turning the country that depends on food aid into what the UN refers to as an” charitable catastrophe.”

The Pentagon stated in a speech that” we are deploying additional powers outside in the region for contingency purposes related to securing and possibly facilitating the withdrawal of U.S. Embassy staff from Sudan, if circumstances require it.”

According to White House spokesman John Kirby, President Joe Biden gave the order for the pre-positioning of military forces to become fit and added that he was carefully monitoring developments.

There are no signs that Americans are being targeted, Kirby continued, but it was a risky environment.

According to Kirby, the two sides should put down their weapons, maintain the peace, and allow humanitarian assistance to reach the Khartoum population.

U.S. citizens in Sudan have hitherto been advised to stay home for protection by the State Department.

According to a State Department spokesman, Washington does not provide statistics on the number of Americans residing in or visiting any given nation, and for security purposes, it did not disclose how many ambassador employees are in Sudan.

Around Khartoum, one of Africa’s’s largest cities, and in Darfur, which is still marred by a brutal conflict that ended three years ago, the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces( RSF) have engaged in some of the fiercest battles.

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s’s defense leader, is in charge of a ruling council that was established following the military takeover in 2021 and the ouster of former autocrat Omar al Bashir in 2019. His lieutenant on the council was common Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti and a commander of more than 100,000 fighters, according to analysts.

Debate over an abroad supported plan to establish a new civil government was the catalyst for the most recent violence. Both legs charge the other with impeding the change.

Along with the United Nations, the African Union, and African trade bloc IGAD, a group of four nations collectively known as the Quad— U.S., UK, US, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia— have pushed international efforts to resolve Sudan’s’s political issues.

As Washington works to combat Russian change in the nation and the wider community, Sudan has been the focus of U.S. political efforts in Africa. Russia has been attempting to settle a deal to create an army platform on Sudan’s’s Red Sea coast and is investing in gold mining there.

( Edited by Franklin Paul, Chizu Nomiyama, Don Durfee, Mark Porter, and Alexandra Hudson; reported by Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart, Daphne Psaledakis, Jeff Mason. )