British military leaders say they can evacuate at least 500 people a day from Sudan but it remains uncertain how long the mission will be able to continue HugoGye reports:
It is not known how many of the 4,000 British citizens believed to be in Sudan are trying to access the flights. Government officials said that there was no shortage of capacity on the military aircraft being used, with the rate of evacuations instead determined by the number of people reaching the airfield.
Brigadier Dan Reeve, chief of joint force operations, said: “Having amassed the forces necessary to provide the Prime Minister with an emergency response option, very early on and ahead of almost any nation, we very deliberately took the decision to wait until there was a sensible window. “I would say the window though is not conditional on that ceasefire holding. It won’t be me that decides when the operation finishes, that will of course be the Prime Minister. We are well set to continue this operation for as long as we need to.”
British troops took over the running of the Wadi Saeedna airstrip on Wednesday after the departure of the German military. The condition of its runway is understood to be deteriorating as a result of the number of large aircraft using it, but Brigadier Reeve said: “The airstrip, while not as perfectly billiard smooth as Heathrow, is better by some margin than the desert landing strips that the C130 and A400 aircraft are trained and designed to operate on.
A No 10 spokesman said: “From the information we are getting from those who are making their way, we are not seeing those who are making that travel having significant issues. We’re not seeing any evidence as it stands that we will have to leave the airport imminently. We are still processing people through in an orderly and manageable way.”
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