The last UK flight carrying refugees from Sudan departed on Saturday night, according to the UK government, capping the end of Britain’s evacuation mission from the nation torn apart by armed conflict.
The last flight from the UK’s Wadi Saeedna airfield, located just north of the capital Khartoum, departed at 10 p.m. local time, according to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The UK no longer operates evacuation flights from the airfield.
Married NHS doctors and their four young children are stranded in Sudan.
On Saturday night, it was revealed that 1,888 individuals had been evacuated on 21 planes, the majority of them were British citizens and their dependents, but the final flight had not yet departed despite being due to do so at 6 o’clock.
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According to the UK government, the last UK airplane carrying refugees from Sudan departed on Saturday night, capping the end of Britain’s evacuation mission from the nation torn apart by armed conflict.
According to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the final flight from the UK’s Wadi Saeedna airfield, located just north of Khartoum’s city, departed at 10 p.m. local time. The UK is no longer operating evacuation flights from the airfield.
NHS doctors who are married and stuck in Sudan with their four young children
The majority of the 1,888 evacuated passengers on the 21 flights on Saturday night were British citizens and their dependents, but the last flight, which was supposed to leave at 6 p.m., never arrived.
Following a last-minute u-turn by the government to allow NHS workers to join British citizens trapped in Sudan on the last flights on Saturday, with a sluggish deadline given to reach the airport amidst the chaos, the UK operation is now winding down. It follows a call from the doctors’ union for the airlifts to include NHS doctors without UK passports.
Despite the prolongation of a ceasefire between the country’s two warring generals having been brokered in the early hours of Friday, thousands more British citizens may still be present in Khartoum.
Former Sudanese prime minister Abdalla Hamdok has issued a warning that the conflict there could worsen and become one of the worst in history.
More than 500 people have lost their lives and thousands injured many stranded with no access to primary necessities for survival.