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Picture rescue torrent6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Mitchell did not deny that the UK ambassador, Giles Lever, and his wife, the deputy ambassador, had both been out of the county since 14 April. The minister for development and Africa said the UK government’s advice to nationals had changed from “stay at home” to asking them to exercise their own judgment on whether to flee – but those who do so will be acting at their own risk. Mitchell, under pressure from his own backbenchers in the Commons earlier in the day, added that the UK was not following the US policy of rescuing only its diplomatic staff. ![]() We have said that there is no current plan for evacuation and we are working on finding a plan.” Heappey told Marr that any plan to deploy armed forces in Khartoum would be “unhelpful and unrealistic” but sought to assure “a number of other options” were discussed in Rishi Sunak’s emergency Cobra meeting on Monday.Ī minister who attended the government’s Cobra meeting on Monday evening said there was “no current plan” for evacuation of British citizens from Sudan.Īndrew Mitchell MP told Channel 4 News: “The Foreign Office’s messaging has been absolutely consistent throughout. Of the government’s latest discussions on the crisis, he said: “It’s not for me to tell you what decisions have been made, but obviously whatever decisions have been taken, we will now be resourcing overnight, so that once the solution is in place, if the prime minister chooses to go with it, he can then announce it.” The armed forces minister also told LBC’s Tonight With Andrew Marr show on Monday night: “The danger is that other than the very tight and controlled mission that we did Saturday into Sunday to extract the diplomats over which we had a very tight degree of control … beyond that we would effectively be inserting foreign troops, not just us, there’ll be other countries that would want to do it, into the parts of Khartoum that has been the most hotly fought over.” James Heappey, the minister for the armed forces, said in a briefing that the UK recognised “the job isn’t done” when it came to rescuing the 4,000 or more British and dual nationals trapped in Sudan. Two Italian military planes landed in Rome carrying 83 Italian nationals and 13 citizens of different nationalities, who had first been evacuated to Djibouti. They included two Greeks and one Belgian who had been wounded, as well as the German and Swiss ambassadors, it said. One British national trapped in their home told the Guardian they were not receiving any messages from the Foreign Office, describing the evacuation operation as “a shitshow”.įrance has airlifted 491 people from 36 countries, including 12 EU nations, to Djibouti since Sunday, according to the foreign ministry. ![]() There are an estimated 4,000 British nationals and dual nationals in Sudan. ![]()
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