Summary
- 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
- Minister Andrew Mitchell says there are estimates of around 4,000 Britons in the country, but the number could be higher
- Fighting between two opposing forces has seen deadly shooting and shelling in the country’s capital, Khartoum, for more than a week
- France, Germany, Italy and Spain have been evacuating diplomats and other nationals from Sudan
- But UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has warned that help for Britons will remain “severely limited” until a ceasefire is reached
- 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
- A British businessman living in Sudan has told the BBC the situation is a “nightmare for those of us left behind” in the country