U.S. military prepares options for possible Sudan evacuation

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a news conference with U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley (not pictured) on the day of the fourth Ukraine Contact Group meeting at Ramstein U.S. Air Base, Germany, April 21, 2023. REUTERS/Heiko Becker

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing options to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Sudan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Friday as the Biden administration weighed whether to pull personnel out of the country's increasingly unstable capital.

"We've deployed some forces into theater to ensure that we provide as many options as possible if we are called on to do something. And we haven't been called on to do anything yet," Austin told a news conference at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. "No decision on anything has been made."