Foreign governments are scrambling to get their diplomats and other citizens safely out of Sudan amid ongoing fighting between two rival generals.

Several countries have deployed military transport aircraft to carry out the evacuations, using airbases in neighbouring Djibouti for the airlift.

But not all is going smoothly.

Thousands of British nationals remain stranded in Sudan.

Jonathan Waterhouse, a British citizen who was evacuated to Djibouti, said the UK government kept telling him to “sit tight” for several days after the conflict began on April 15.

Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/25/uk-announces-full-evacuation-plan-on-military-flights-sudan/

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