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UK citizens desperately trying to flee have until midday local time to reach airport Sudan – live: Britons trapped in Khartoum race against clock to board last evacuation flight Skip to main content
The UK will end evacuation flights from an airfield in Sudan by 6pm on Saturday, the government has announced.. Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden said operations would cease following a ...
The UK Ministry of Health advertised the evacuation programme through posters, among other means. The poster depicted here was used in the London Underground.. The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to defend individuals, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.
Operation Highbrow was a British Ministry of Defence (MoD) operation to evacuate civilians from Beirut as a result of the escalating 2006 Lebanon War.Initially, helicopters started ferrying the most vulnerable to Cyprus with several Royal Navy ships later transporting evacuees across the Mediterranean Sea to Cyprus.
Evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita in Texas, United States. This list of mass evacuations includes emergency evacuations of a large number of people in a short period of time. An emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event whether from natural or man made causes, or as the result of war
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The final evacuation flight for civilians left later on that same day, [86] followed by the very final evacuation flight, carrying military personnel, marking the end of the operation. [87] Between 800–1,100 eligible Afghans and 100–150 British nationals were estimated to have been left behind, along with some military equipment. [ 88 ]
Foreign secretary James Cleverly urges British nationals still in Sudan to make their way to the extraction point