The Latest Breaking News from Khartoum

The Foreign Office has announced the evacuation of British nationals from Sudan after a 72-hour ceasefire was agreed between the warring sides last night.

Humanitarian organisations say operations are at a standstill as they look to resume work in some areas of Sudan.

Rawan al-Waleed was expecting to fly from Khartoum to Cairo last week for a wedding.

The British government said it had launched a large-scale evacuation of its citizens from Sudan on Tuesday, after the North African country's warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire. Britain said military flights would depart from an airfield outside Khartoum, and would be open to those with British passports. Priority…

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced that the operation would begin on Tuesday after ministers came under pressure to help at least 2,000 citizens flee the conflict.

The plan comes after a crunch meeting of the Government's Cobra emergencies committee last night, with two warships ons standby in the region and military planes stationed at an airfield outside the capital, Khartoum

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Sudan’s warring generals have pledged to observe a new three-day truce that was brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia to try to pull Africa’s third-largest nation from the abyss

Little sign of compromise between warring factions as foreign governments race to shutter embassies and evacuate diplomats and citizens with violence intensifying