The UK has evacuated 2,197 people to safety from war-torn Sudan, making it the longest and largest airlift by any of the Western nations during the crisis, the Foreign Office has said
On Saturday, the UK stopped evacuation flights from an airfield north of the capital, Khartoum, due to what the government said was a"significant decline" in the number of Britons coming forward, and an"increasingly volatile" situation on the ground.The evacuation operation then moved to Port Sudan where a UK team was set up to provide consular assistance to any remaining British nationals.
"In one week, the RAF has flown more than 20 flights, deployed over a thousand personnel, evacuated over 2,000 civilians and helped citizens from more than 20 countries to get home," he said.The attention of UK teams now turns to diplomacy and humanitarian aid.
Meanwhile, the UK's ambassador to Sudan - who faced criticism for not being in the country when the fighting broke out - has been deployed to Addis Ababa to work on the UK's response from the British Embassy in Ethiopia.
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