The U.S. Embassy in Sudan issued a security alert Saturday, warning American citizens to “shelter in place until further notice,” hours after the country’s military said it had agreed to guarantee evacuation requests made by the United States, Britain, France and China.

“It is not currently safe to undertake a U.S. government co-ordinated evacuation of private U.S. citizens,” the alert said, as fighting continued between the Sudanese army and it’s partner turned rival, the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group in the capital Khartoum and other parts of the west African nation.

[They’ve already had a French citizen killed when their convoy trying to reach the port was attacked. The embassy personnel were flown to Ethiopia. Do they have ANY contingency plans for these Americans? ~ Beege]