Last Britons leave war-torn Sudan

THE final Britons scrambling to leave Sudan departed from the war-torn country yesterday, as the Government closed down its airbridge indefinitely.

- Marco Giannangeli

Around 1,573 UK nationals were evacuated on 13 flights since the plan began to extract people a week ago, although thousands of people could have been left out of the programme.

It comes amid criticism of the pace of the evacuation, which was given more time after a three-day extension to the ceasefire between warring Sudanese generals was agreed late on Thursday.

Last night senior Army officers said that warnings of the impending crisis had been given a full week before the Foreign Office decided to act.