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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh, Patrick Wintour, Peter Walker and Julian Borger

UK begins evacuating citizens from Sudan after Germany allows use of airfield

Joint forces in Cyprus board a plane bound for Sudan.
Joint forces in Cyprus board a plane bound for Sudan on Tuesday. Photograph: Crown Copyright/Getty Images

A second British evacuation flight from Sudan has reportedly landed in Cyprus, after Germany gave permission for the UK to fly from an airfield north of Khartoum it has been controlling to coordinate its own rescue operations.

A third RAF flight was expected to leave overnight, although the numbers airlifted to safety were far fewer than the 2,000-plus Britons believed to have been trapped in the country when civil war broke out nearly two weeks ago.

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