Sudan: Nation Asks UK to Help Evacuate Its Citizens in Libya

1 March 2011

Khartoum — Sudan has asked the United Kingdom (UK) to help evacuate its citizens who are stranded in Libya as anti-government unrest across the country continues to force a mass exodus by foreigners.

UK-chartered flights and boats have already evacuated hundreds of Britons from the capital Tripoli and elsewhere in the unrest-whacked Libya, from which as many as 100,000 people have fled since anti-government protest erupted over the past week, according to UN estimates.

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