Britain on Tuesday said it had launched 'a large-scale evacuation' of its citizens trapped in Sudan, where 10 days of urban combat have led to hundreds of deaths.
Britain on Tuesday said it had launched “a large-scale evacuation” of its citizens trapped in Sudan, where 10 days of urban combat have led to hundreds of deaths.
It comes hours after a United States-brokered 72-hour ceasefire between Sudan’s warring generals officially came into effect, and following criticism in the United Kingdom that the government had abandoned British citizens there.Britain faced pressure to act after comparisons to the chaotic evacuation of Britons after Afghanistan’s Taliban took control of Kabul in 2021.
“The UK will continue to work to end the bloodshed in Sudan and support a democratic government,” he added. Britain carried out a military operation Sunday to withdraw its diplomats as deadly battles raged in the capital Khartoum.
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