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Tracking British flights to Sudan
Daniele Palumbo
BBC Investigative Journalist
BBC News has been tracking RAF flights in and out of Sudan this morning.
Using a plane-tracking website, we have been able to follow a C130 Hercules – a military transport which can carry up to 100 people – flying from an RAF airbase at Akrotiri in Cyprus to an airfield north of the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
So far, it has made two trips to Sudan and
is on its way back to Akrotiri
We’ve also been monitoring flights from the UK to Akrotiri and have tracked a Royal Air Force KC2
– a large military transport aircraft able to transport up to 291 people – which has landed in the last hour.
Other countries are using airports in Djibouti and Yemen to evacuate their citizens from Sudan and we’ve tracked Italian, Japanese and UN flights arriving and departing from these this morning.