UK evacuation of Sudan ‘could continue after ceasefire ends’

Military says emergency flights will operate as long as conditions are safe, as civilians arrive in Britain

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Britain could continue running evacuation flights from Sudan once the current three-day ceasefire expires on Thursday night, the army officer in charge of the rescue said, as the first planeload of civilians rescued from the country's civil war arrived at Stansted airport.

Brig Dan Reeve said the airlift from a base north of Khartoum would continue as long as conditions were safe, including possibly beyond the ceasefire period, if people could still travel there.