UK citizens feel 'abandoned' as Sudan evacuations fail to materialise
People gathered at bus stations around Khartoum on Monday in a bid to escape the capitalThe UK is believed to have among the highest number of foreign citizens in Sudan - up to 4,000 according to Britain's international development minister. For more than a week they've been among the thousands confined to their homes, trapped by intense fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces .
And on Monday, Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell warned that movement in Khartoum "remains extremely dangerous and no evacuation option comes without grave risk to life". "We've had absolutely nothing but nonsense from the government," he told the Today programme on Monday. "It's very traumatising here and the situation is very bad, it's getting worse. The clashes, the fighting, and there are dead bodies everywhere. And everyone is trying to escape and flee the country, and you can see the country is really getting into a civil war."
On Monday, India's Foreign Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar tweeted that more than 500 Indian citizens had reached Port Sudan on the Red Sea, about 850km and 13 hours drive east of Khartoum. Two air force planes and a naval vessel were on standby to evacuate the group. "At 12.30am we got the call from the crisis unit [of the Italian foreign ministry]," he told the BBC. "They said they would attempt an airlift the next day and told us to go to a meeting point."
She said the group - which included a number of UK nationals - was taken to an airfield in northern Khartoum and flown out on two specially chartered military planes. During a conversation with Foreign Office officials, Dr Abdelmoneim's family were told his father would be placed "high on the evacuation list given that he is elderly and lives alone".
"All they had to do is tweet out that British citizens are not being evacuated. Their communication has increased his chance of coming to harm and decreased his chance of leaving safely." "British citizens have not been given any information, the power to the mobile networks and the internet has now gone down to people won't be able to receive any information," she said.
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