Remaining evacuation flights depart Port Sudan
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he final evacuation flights have left Sudan for Cyprus, based on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Two ultimate flights took off from Port Sudan on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, the ultimate one leaving at 1.10am native time – greater than two hours later than scheduled.
According to Flightradar, the final flight touched down in Larnaca at 6.32am native time with a airplane scheduled to go away the Cypriot airport for Birmingham on Thursday afternoon.
The evacuation flights had been initially attributable to finish on Monday earlier than the additional planes had been introduced, however the Foreign Office stated there can be no additional extensions.
A press release on the web site stated any British nationals in want of help ought to go to the Foreign Office crew on the Coral Hotel in Port Sudan, which is getting used as a brief workplace with the British Embassy in Khartoum closed.
Foreign secretary James Cleverly stated on Tuesday the evacuation had seen 2,341 depart the war-torn county on 28 flights.
Downing Street stated 1,195 had been British nationals, with different nationalities, together with Sudanese dependents of British nationals, additionally helped to go away.
Mr Cleverly tweeted: “We’ve co-ordinated the longest and largest evacuation of any Western country. But the hard work in Sudan has not finished.”
The Foreign Secretary earlier stated there was nonetheless a British navy presence on the nation’s principal seaport on the Red Sea coast with the HMS Lancaster warship off the coast.
A renewed 72-hour ceasefire was attributable to finish at midnight on Wednesday in Sudan with the Foreign Office warning “violence could escalate”.
It stated: “We are closely monitoring the situation in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan where there are ongoing military clashes.
“There is now fighting in various locations across Sudan. Khartoum International Airport is currently closed.”
Martin Griffiths, the United Nations underneath secretary common for humanitarian affairs and emergency aid co-ordinator, arrived in Port Sudan on Wednesday to hunt ensures for the secure passage of assist deliveries.
He stated: “It’s not as if we’re asking for the moon. We’re asking for the movement of humanitarian supplies and people. We do this in every other country, even without ceasefires.”
The United Nations stated Sudanese military chief General Abdel Fattah Burhan and his rival General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the pinnacle of a paramilitary group generally known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have agreed to ship representatives to the negotiation desk in a bid to ascertain a extra secure truce.
Generals Burhan and Dagalo, each with highly effective overseas backers, had been allies in an October 2021 navy coup that halted Sudan’s fraught transition to democracy, however they’ve since turned on one another.