In response to complaints from some stranded people that they felt “abandoned,” the UK pledged that it was “doing everything we can” to rescue its citizens from the conflict-torn Sudan.
Andrew Mitchell, the state’s minister of foreign affairs, defended the decision to prioritise a nighttime military operation to remove embassy personnel and their families by claiming that there had been a “very specific threat to the diplomatic community.”
Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the parliamentary Defence Select Committee, called for a “clear-cut plan” to get British passport holders out of Sudan.
“If that plan does not emerge today, then individuals will then lose faith and then start making their own way back,” he told the television channel GB News, saying that could lead to “some very difficult situations”.
One Briton told the BBC he had been forced to make his own evacuation arrangements, even as other countries got their citizens out of the country.