Some 2,000 Britons in Sudan had signed on to a Foreign Office list. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - The UK said Saturday it was readying its final evacuation flight for British citizens from war-torn Sudan, airlifting nearly 1,900 people out during fragile ceasefires.now in its third week, said they had been forced by the British government’s rules to leave relatives behind.
Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell denied the government was abandoning anyone in Sudan, after it was accused by opposition parties of repeating the mistakes of its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The eligibility criteria still left UK nationals with family in Sudan facing the choice of coming home or staying, despite the risks, if their relatives had no right of residency in Britain.
“At the same time I feel down that my family – my dad, mum, brother and sister – are still endangered by this deadly fighting in my country,” Babiker added. The airlifts began after Sudan’s warring parties agreed an initial three-day US-brokered ceasefire, which was then formally extended, though fierce fighting has resumed.
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