Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) has airlifted 301 people out of Sudan over four flights, Downing Street has announced.
Another RAF flight was preparing to depart the Wadi Saeedna airstrip near the capital of Khartoum on Wednesday afternoon, with a further three flights expected later in the day.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s official spokesman told reporters: “Currently we have evacuated 301 people. There is another flight loading right now. The response from Khartoum is running smoothly. Four flights have departed already, another is loading now.
“We’re calling everyone forward and we have no issue with capacity, and people are being processed smoothly.”…