The UK's final evacuation flights out of Sudan will take place later, as the latest ceasefire breaks down.
Stories emerged this week of National Health Service doctors being turned away from the airport in Khartoum - and the Foreign Office repeatedly told the BBC that only British passport holders and their dependents were able to get on the flights.On Friday evening, a message was circulated by the Department of Health and Social Care to NHS doctors in Sudan, telling them to make their way to Wadi Seidna airfield, just north of the capital, for evacuation.
He told the BBC he was "really glad" that the UK government had changed its guidance - but said there was "just one day only" for his colleagues in Sudan to make the last flights. The Manchester Royal Infirmary doctor is planning to fly to the UK later and is due back at work on Tuesday.Dr Abdulrahman Babiker is due back at work at the Manchester Royal Infirmary where he has been working for four years
He added: "It cannot be right for the government to clap for NHS doctors one day and then turn them away from evacuation flights out of a conflict zone the next."Other countries have also been evacuating their citizens, and theImage source,People evacuate war-torn Sudan, as RAF aircraft transports British nationals from Wadi Seidna airfield to Cyprus
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