The UK is believed to person among the highest fig of overseas citizens successful Sudan - up to 4,000 according to Britain's planetary improvement minister. For much than a week they've been among the thousands confined to their homes, trapped by aggravated warring betwixt the Sudanese service and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Hundreds of overseas nationals person already been evacuated, but the UK has faced increasing disapproval from galore of its citizens who accidental they person been fundamentally abandoned.
While the UK Foreign Office said implicit the play that it had managed to evacuate embassy unit from the superior Khartoum, it is feared that hundreds of different citizens stay trapped.
In dozens of conversations with the BBC, those stuck connected the crushed person complained of mediocre connection from the Foreign Office's situation centre.
A tiny British subject reconnaissance squad is successful Sudan to measure evacuation options, BBC News understands.
And connected Monday, Foreign Office curate Andrew Mitchell warned that question successful Khartoum "remains highly unsafe and nary evacuation enactment comes without sedate hazard to life".
He said a subordinate of the French peculiar forces was "gravely ill" aft being changeable portion trying to evacuate French diplomats.
But immoderate UK citizens accidental they person waited excessively agelong for help.
One British national - William - told the BBC helium had received virtually nary assistance from authorities officials since the struggle began much than a week ago.
He was forced to brave the thoroughfare warring to fly Khartoum aft his concern became "intolerable".
"We've had perfectly thing but nonsense from the government," helium told the Today programme connected Monday.
"Not adjacent nonsense, we've had nothing. The past connection was that the authorities itself is going to bash nothing, truthful we had to instrumentality this option."
His communicative mirrored that of different British citizens - who person watched connected successful dismay arsenic their planetary counterparts person been evacuated by different governments.
"We consciousness abandoned," Edinburgh autochthonal Fatima Osman, who was visiting household erstwhile the unit began, told the BBC from Khartoum.
"It's precise traumatising present and the concern is precise bad, it's getting worse. The clashes, the fighting, and determination are dormant bodies everywhere. And everyone is trying to flight and fly the country, and you tin spot the state is truly getting into a civilian war."
Her husband, Amar Osman, said their acquisition of trying to get proposal from the Foreign Office had near him infuriated.
"I filled the determination signifier connected the [Foreign Office] website and I received an email saying they've received my form," helium told the Today programme arsenic the dependable of gunfire echoed nearby.
"But thing else. It's car reply aft you taxable your signifier and that's it."
As British nationals person tried - often successful vain - to get instructions from the Foreign Office's situation centre and the embassy successful Khartoum, a big of different nations person managed to evacuate their citizens.
On Monday, India's Foreign Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar tweeted that much than 500 Indian citizens had reached Port Sudan connected the Red Sea, astir 850km (528 miles) and 13 hours thrust eastbound of Khartoum. Two aerial unit planes and a naval vas were connected standby to evacuate the group.
And agelong queues of United Nations vehicles and buses were seen leaving Khartoum connected Sunday, besides heading eastbound towards Port Sudan and carrying "citizens from each implicit the world", a Sierra Leonean evacuee told AFP quality agency.
One of the archetypal nations to evacuate citizens was Saudi Arabia. On Sunday, 91 of the Kingdom's citizens and 66 nationals of 12 different "friendly countries" were flown from Port Sudan to the metropolis of Jeddah crossed the Red Sea.
Stefano Rebora - president of Italian NGO Music for Peace - was evacuated connected an exigency formation by the Italian embassy connected Sunday.
"At 12.30am we got the telephone from the situation portion [of the Italian overseas ministry]," helium told the BBC. "They said they would effort an airlift the adjacent time and told america to spell to a gathering point."
After gathering different Italian nationals astatine the embassy, Mr Rebora travelled successful a convoy to an airfield astir 20km (12 miles) distant from Khartoum.
"It took america 4 hours to screen 20km," helium recalled. "On the mode we saw bodies everyplace - there's nary information whatsoever truthful cipher dares spell cod them - but there's utter demolition too."
Elizabeth Boughey, a British teacher astatine Khartoum American School, was evacuated by the French embassy to Djibouti, alongside 200 different radical of assorted nationalities.
She said the radical - which included a fig of UK nationals - was taken to an airfield successful bluish Khartoum and flown retired connected 2 specially chartered subject planes.
Meanwhile, outer photos appeared to amusement a Hercules C-130 transport level connected the crushed astatine Port Sudan airfield connected Sunday astatine 08:04 section clip (10:04 BST).
Reports online suggested the level whitethorn person been either a Jordanian oregon a South Korean craft known to person been successful the country astatine the time.
Some UK nationals person turned down alternate offers of evacuation from friends, household and different nations, arsenic they believed they had assurances of evacuations from UK officials.
Dr Javid Abdelmoneim told the BBC that his aged begetter has spent the past week trapped successful his flat successful Garden City adjacent Khartoum wherever helium was observing the period of Ramadan.
During a speech with Foreign Office officials, Dr Abdelmoneim's household were told his begetter would beryllium placed "high connected the evacuation database fixed that helium is aged and lives alone".
But helium said Sunday's announcement that the UK embassy successful Khartoum had been evacuated took the household by surprise.
"We person been dutifully waiting and said nary to cousins leaving [in a convoy] to Port Sudan and Egypt. Our moving presumption was Dad was going with the British embassy," Dr Abdelmoneim said.
"My sister called the situation compartment aft Sunday's announcement. She asked them straight whether they were readying evacuation for British citizens and they didn't reply the question.
"All they (the FCDO) had to bash is tweet retired that British citizens are not being evacuated. Their connection has accrued his accidental of coming to harm and decreased his accidental of leaving safely."
Amar Osman told the BBC that arsenic disorder reigned and the warring continued connected Monday, helium was considering taking the unsafe way retired of Khartoum by roadworthy himself.
Thousands of Sudanese person already taken this perilous way retired of the capital. Last week, the BBC witnessed hundreds of radical boarding buses and flatbed trucks astatine autobus stations crossed the city.
But that enactment is fraught with danger.
The RSF is said to person acceptable up roadblocks connected large roads astir Khartoum.
Ms Boughey told the BBC her radical was stopped and robbed of astir $500 (£402) by RSF troops portion moving astir the metropolis past Wednesday.
Nonetheless, the hazard hasn't stopped radical trying to permission by road.
One British pistillate - who asked not to beryllium named - told the BBC that she and her relatives had rented a autobus and driven to the Egyptian borderline aft not proceeding backmost from the British embassy successful Khartoum.
"British citizens person not been fixed immoderate information, the powerfulness to the mobile networks and the net has present gone down to radical won't beryllium capable to person immoderate information," she said.
"Meanwhile Dutch nationals, Greek nationals, Italian nationals, radical we cognize are being flown from airstrips conscionable extracurricular of Khartoum to safety. That is citizens, not adjacent embassy people.
"And due to the fact that there's been specified a breakdown successful connection it turns retired British citizens would person been capable to get connected those flights but they were advised to enactment successful by the British government."
Yousra - a London based accountant who was successful Khartoum for her wedding - fled the superior by bus.
She managed to find proscription from the adjoining metropolis of Omdurman to the bluish metropolis of Dongola, earlier waiting 24 hours successful the searing vigor to transverse the Egyptian border.
Speaking to the BBC connected Monday, the seat of the UK Parliament's overseas affairs committee, Alicia Kearns MP, accused the authorities of learning "no lessons" from the chaotic evacuation of Afghanistan successful 2021.
"The world is we person to get British nationals out," she told the Today programme.
"If however, determination was to beryllium nary evacuation due to the fact that it is excessively dangerous... past we person a motivation work to archer British nationals arsenic soon arsenic imaginable that that is the judgement that has been made, due to the fact that they past request to beryllium capable to marque their ain decision."
In a connection to the BBC, a authorities spokesperson defended the Foreign Office's efforts, and said that officials were "working alongside planetary partners and doing each we tin to guarantee the harmless transition of our citizens successful what remains a precise challenging context".
Mr Mitchell told parliament that the concern connected the crushed remained "extremely grave", but promised to look astatine each anticipation to get British nationals retired of Sudan.
But the overwhelming sentiments expressed to the BBC connected Monday were choler and frustration.
"We got thing different than the authorities update each time which inactive says structure successful place, which is simply a joke," Ms Boughey told the BBC.
"In examination with what we've seen different embassies doing, including immoderate overmuch smaller embassies, I don't cognize what the Brits did bash but get immoderate of their ain out."
Kayleen Devlin, Laura Gozzi, Chris Bell, Olga Robinson and Natasha Booty besides contributed to reporting for this story.
Graphics by Jana Tauschinski and Tural Ahmedzade.
Edited by James Stringer.