The Coral Hotel – an architectural replica of the British colonial Governor’s House across the road in Port Sudan – is the new office for British consular support. The UK operations base relocated there from Wadi Saeedna in Omdurman – roughly 14 miles (22km) from Khartoum and a heartland of fighting – after a Turkish
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The final UK evacuation flight will leave Sudan tonight, as the death toll rises in the war-torn country. Gunfire and heavy artillery in parts of the capital Khartoum, despite a ceasefire between the country’s two top generals, was reported by residents on Saturday. Some 1,888 people have been evacuated on 21 flights from Wadi Saeedna
British nationals seeking to flee Sudan have only until midday local time if they want to be evacuated from the war-torn country as NHS doctors without UK passports were told they can now catch final rescue flights. The Foreign Office has urged those still in the African nation to travel to the Wadi Saeedna airfield
By Howard Bloom Someone is trying to end the liberty and freedom of your kids. On Wednesday April 26th, a bipartisan team that included Hawaii Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, and Alabama Republican Katie Britt introduced The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act. An act that strangles the
British nationals in Sudan have 24 hours to catch a flight before they are stopped, the deputy prime minister has said. The flights will stop at 6pm UK time on Saturday, Oliver Dowden confirmed. Speaking to reporters on Friday afternoon, he said more than 1,500 people had now been flown out of the country. But
A ceasefire in Sudan has been extended for three more days despite continuing reports of heavy fighting in the capital Khartoum and the western region of Darfur. The truce between Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and military had been due to expire at midnight, but the US and Saudi Arabia brokered a new deal.
Spain is believed to have recorded its hottest ever April day. A temperature of 38.7C (101.66F) was provisionally recorded at Cordoba Airport on Thursday, according to the Met Office. The record was broken as the country continued to swelter extreme temperatures which also saw a horse die and another collapse while pulling passenger carriages through
British nationals in Sudan have been warned the UK “cannot guarantee” how many more evacuation flights will leave Khartoum after the 72-hour ceasefire expires. So far, 536 British nationals have been airlifted to safety on six flights, according to the Foreign Office. The US-Saudi mediated ceasefire between Sudan’s two warring factions is due to expire
Many people are arriving in Cyprus utterly traumatised and too upset to talk about what they’ve been through to get here. We watched a hundred or so, slowly walk down the ramp off the back of an RAF Hercules aircraft into the Mediterranean sun on this holiday island. What a culture shock that must be.
Why do some MAGA Republicans want a new civil war? And why do some followers of Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister and former soccer superstar Imran Khan seem to want the same sort of violence and chaos? One major Pakistani columnist has found the answer in the work of American scientific thinker Howard Bloom. In Pakistan’s
Canadian socialite Jasmine Hartin has pleaded guilty to manslaughter by negligence over the shooting of a police superintendent in Belize. The former partner of Conservative grandee Lord Ashcroft’s son Andrew entered the plea at the Supreme Court in Belize City over the death of 42-year-old Henry Jemmott. Her trial had been due to start today.
As the UK government begins evacuating British citizens from Sudan, many have made their own way out to safety. Hotels across Djibouti have become places of refuge for those fleeing devastation and bloodshed in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Hundreds of people have been evacuated and brought here by international rescue missions. A sleepy port city
The UK is coordinating an evacuation of British nationals from Sudan, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said. Military flights are due to depart from an airfield outside Khartoum, supported by diplomats from the Foreign Office, the government has said. Mr Cleverly says the Foreign Office has started contacting nationals directly and is providing routes to
A team of British troops have flown into a port in eastern Sudan on a reconnaissance mission as the UK works out options to help evacuate British nationals stranded in the crisis-hit country, Sky News understands. The soldiers landed at Port Sudan, on the Red Sea on Monday. A flight tracking website showed a C-17
There are understood to be around 4,000 British passport holders in Sudan after foreign secretary James Cleverly warned the UK government is “severely limited” in its ability to help British nationals until the conflict ends. It comes after diplomats and staff in Sudan have been evacuated by governments around the world as rival generals battle
The covert mission to evacuate British diplomats and their families from Sudan’s warzone capital began under the cover of darkness. A team of elite British troops flew into Khartoum late on Saturday night on board an American military aircraft that was part of a separate but coordinated US evacuation mission. Upon landing, the British soldiers
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