UK’s Sudan evacuation plan announced
UK government launches “large-scale” evacuation flights for British nationals from Sudan.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has announced that the RAF will begin evacuating British nationals from Sudan.
Today’s Martha Kearney spoke to Osman, a British doctor who has been in Khartoum for the past week visiting family. He had decided to try and leave the country by road and said he would have found it difficult to get to an airfield.
Martha then heard from General Sir Richard Barrons, Former Commander of Joint Forces Command, on the logistical complexities of the evacuation and to Dr Atia Abdalla Atia, the secretary general of Sudan Doctors Union and a doctor based in Khartoum, about the conflict and the deteriorating situation in his hospital.
Image credit: Bundeswehr Handout, 23.04.23
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