Thousands of British citizens remain trapped in Sudan

Summary

1. The UK government has insisted it’s doing all it can to help British nationals stuck in Sudan – after diplomats and their families were rescued yesterday
2. Minister Andrew Mitchell says there are estimates of around 4,000 Britons in the country, but the number could be higher
3. Fighting between two opposing forces has seen deadly shooting and shelling in the country’s capital, Khartoum, for more than a week
4. France, Germany, Italy and Spain have been evacuating diplomats and other nationals from Sudan
5. But UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has warned that help for Britons will remain “severely limited” until a ceasefire is reached
6. He added there were “specific threats and violence directed towards diplomats”, which led to the decision to evacuate staff from the British embassy in Khartoum
7. A British businessman living in Sudan has told the BBC the situation is a “nightmare for those of us left behind” in the country