THE final British evacuation flight from Sudan departed from the Wadi Saeedna airfield near Khartoum on Saturday evening, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said.

A statement on the government’s travel advice for Sudan website said that no other flights would be running after the last one departed at 10 pm.

At least 1,888 people on 21 flights have been evacuated from Sudan — the vast majority of them British nationals and their dependants — but thousands more British citizens may remain.

Speaking to the BBC, Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell said the operation has been “extremely successful,” but stressed: “We can’t stay there forever in such dangerous circumstances.”

He said that Britain’s evacuation had been the “longest and largest evacuation of any Western nation.”

But its failure to organise immediate action was criticised by Amnesty International on Friday, calling it “chaotic and unacceptably slow.”

The government has advised any British nationals still remaining in Sudan to make their way to Port Sudan for “options for departure.”

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said that the government will “press all diplomatic levers” to secure a ceasefire in Sudan.