The first RAF plane carrying British civilians is said to have left Sudan and landed in Cyprus as part of the UK government s large-scale mission to evacuate thousands of Britons.
Rishi Sunak said many more flights carrying British nationals will leave Sudan into tomorrow, after the first plane took off from the conflict-torn nation earlier today.
EXCLUSIVE: Esra Osman said her mother, Haram Osman, 58, had been visiting relatives in the city of Kosti, just south of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, when the fighting erupted last week.