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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Khartoum, Ruth Michaelson and Michael Savage

Sudanese army blocks Britons from boarding last rescue flights

A family board an RAF evacuation flight at Wadi Seidna airbase.
A family board an RAF evacuation flight at Wadi Seidna airbase. Photograph: PO Phot Arron Hoare/Royal Navy

Britons are feared to have been stranded in Sudan following reports that the country’s armed forces had prevented a number of people from reaching the last rescue flights out of the war-torn country on Saturday.

On Saturday night, it was announced that 1,888 people on 21 flights have been evacuated from Sudan – the vast majority of them British nationals and their dependants – but the last flight was yet to leave despite being scheduled to depart at 6pm.

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