By Enyichukwu Enemanna
British Armed Forces have pulled UK embassy staff and their families from Sudan, as fighting between rival Sudanese generals enters second week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Sunday.
“UK armed forces have completed a complex and rapid evacuation of British diplomats and their families from Sudan, amid a significant escalation in violence and threats to embassy staff,” Sunak tweeted.
The prime minister said the government was “continuing to pursue every avenue to end the bloodshed in Sudan and ensure the safety of British nationals remaining in the country”.
UK forces undertook the military operation alongside “the US, France and other allies”, Defence mininster Ben Wallace announced.
The UK operation involved more than 1,200 personnel from the army, the Royal Marines and the Royal Air Force, he added.
Fierce battles between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group, Rapid Support Forces which has seen fighting with tanks in densely populated capital, Khartoum and Darfur.
Air strikes launched by fighter jets have killed more than 400 people and left thousands wounded.
