Sudan conflict: UK announces final evacuation flights

The UK government has announced that the final rescue flights from Sudan will take off on Wednesday. British nationals who still want to leave the country should head to the Coral Hotel in Port Sudan by 10:00 local time. 

The UK’s evacuation of over 2,341 people during 28 flights has been described as “the longest and largest operation of any Western nation.” Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has warned that there will be no further British evacuation flights from the city. The focus is now on providing humanitarian aid, with the UK maintaining a diplomatic presence in Port Sudan and at Sudan’s borders with Egypt and Ethiopia.

A negotiated, short-term ceasefire last week allowed UK evacuation flights to take off from an airstrip near Khartoum, while the fragile ceasefire held.