Britain launches evacuation flights to get citizens out of Sudan - as clock ticks to get thousands of people out during 72-hour ceasefire
UK military flights are due to depart from an airfield outside the capital Khartoum for British passport holders. Priority will be given to families with children and/or the elderly or individuals with medical conditions.
Brits have been told to shelter in place while a plan to get them out safely, away from the violence of the brewing civil war, is put together. Rishi Sunak held a Cobra meeting on Monday but there was no publicly published plan to get people out. "If they wish to move because they have better information on the ground than we do in the Foreign Office then they may do so, but they do so at their own risk."The danger was highlighted when a French special forces soldier was gravely "ill" after being shot during a rescue mission.
There were questions about why the British ambassador, Giles Lever, was not in the country when the violence broke out.
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