UK Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell has told the BBC that the operation to evacuate British and other nationals from Khartoum has been “extremely successful.”
Speaking in Nairobi, Mitchell said it was right that the evacuation flights were ending. “I don’t think there’s a single Brit in Khartoum who won’t know about the evacuation and the flow of people who’ve been coming to the airport indicate that that is correct,” he said.
He said the situation at the Wadi Saedna airfield was “extremely dangerous”, and cited the example of the Turkish aircraft that was shot at yesterday.
“We can’t stay there forever in such dangerous circumstances,” he said, adding that the UK government was “looking at every single option to help British citizens who are caught up in this terrible crisis.”