The UK will run an additional evacuation flight from Port Sudan on Monday (May 1) the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has said.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said rescue efforts would continue from the east of Sudan as Britain and its international allies advocate for a long-term ceasefire.
The UK will run a further flight for those still trapped in the country after officially ending the operation from an airfield near Khartoum, the Government has said. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community It comes as a Government minister said the evacuation mission has been “extremely successful” but cannot last “forever”.
The UK has evacuated 2,122 people on 23 flights from the Wadi Saeedna airfield near Khartoum with the vast majority of them British nationals and their dependents.
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