UK coordinating with its nationals for evacuation from Sudan

The British government is preparing to take advantage of a 72-hour ceasefire agreed by the warring factions in Sudan to evacuate UK nationals from the country, following intense criticism that it had missed a window of opportunity to evacuate more than only British diplomats and their families on Sunday.

Military flights open to British passport-holders would depart from an airfield outside the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, the Foreign Office said. Priority would be given to family groups with children, the elderly and individuals with medical conditions.

The Foreign Office told citizens not to travel to the airfield unless they were contacted, as it warned the situation remained “volatile” and that the ability to carry out evacuations could change at short notice.