Sudan: Aviation

(asked on 5th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether there have been evacuation flights from the Sudan since 1 May; and how many (a) British and (b) other nationals have been evacuated from the Sudan to the UK since that date.


Answered by
Andrew Mitchell Portrait
Andrew Mitchell
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
This question was answered on 11th July 2023

The UK co-ordinated the longest and largest evacuation of any Western country and brought 2,450 people to safety from Sudan. Between 25 April and 3 May, the UK supported the departure of 1,243 British nationals - and 1,207 other nationals - on 24 flights out of Sudan. The UK Government are no longer running any evacuation operations from Sudan.

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