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The UK “can't just focus on Sudan” when it comes to taking in refugees, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Tuesday after Britain ended its evacuation flights from the country.
British troops handed the Wadi Saeedna airfield back to local authorities after helping more than 2,000 people escape the fighting in Sudan.
The evacuees included Sudanese doctors working in the National Health Service but Mr Cleverly played down the prospect of further refugees joining family members in Britain.
The UN has said that more than 800,000 people could flee Sudan because of the violence between rival military factions.
“Sudan is not the only live conflict in the world. Sadly, there are many millions of people who are living in countries that have a conflict,” Mr Cleverly told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
“The nature and scale of the support that we give to refugees has to be done in the round. We can't just focus on Sudan.”
He said a controversial migration bill currently before MPs would commit the government to providing “safe and legal routes” to Britain.
The UK described its airlift from Sudan as the longest and largest by a western nation during the crisis, with at least 2,197 people rescued.
The flights carried some citizens of other nations, including the US, Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and Australia.
“As the focus turns to humanitarian and diplomatic efforts, we will continue do all we can to press for a long-term ceasefire and an immediate end to the violence in Sudan,” Mr Cleverly said.
The government said it was no longer running evacuation flights from Wadi Saeedna airfield because of a significant decline in the number of British citizens coming forward and an increasingly volatile situation on the ground.
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A UK team is now set up at Port Sudan to provide consular assistance, including to British citizens leaving by commercial routes.
The Royal Navy's HMS Lancaster is supporting evacuation efforts from Sudan.
“Yet again, the men and women of our armed forces have led the way,” Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said.
“In one week, the RAF have flown more than 20 flights, deployed over a thousand personnel, evacuated over 2,000 civilians and helped citizens from more than 20 countries to get home.
“HMS Lancaster will remain at Port Sudan and her crew will continue to help provide support.”
International Development Minister Andrew Mitchell was in Nairobi at the weekend, meeting Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto and African Union chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat to discuss the conflict in Sudan.
The UK ambassador to Sudan was sent to Addis Ababa last week to support the UK’s diplomatic regional response from the British embassy in Ethiopia.
London says it is also exploring options to provide effective humanitarian assistance to people in Sudan, in co-ordination with international partners, the UN and NGOs.
The UK, which has historic links to Sudan, has allocated more than £250 million ($312 million) to humanitarian aid in the last five years.
The government is urging all British citizens in Sudan to follow travel advice, warning the situation remains volatile and that evacuation plans could change at short notice.
Coffee: black death or elixir of life?
It is among the greatest health debates of our time; splashed across newspapers with contradicting headlines - is coffee good for you or not?
Depending on what you read, it is either a cancer-causing, sleep-depriving, stomach ulcer-inducing black death or the secret to long life, cutting the chance of stroke, diabetes and cancer.
The latest research - a study of 8,412 people across the UK who each underwent an MRI heart scan - is intended to put to bed (caffeine allowing) conflicting reports of the pros and cons of consumption.
The study, funded by the British Heart Foundation, contradicted previous findings that it stiffens arteries, putting pressure on the heart and increasing the likelihood of a heart attack or stroke, leading to warnings to cut down.
Numerous studies have recognised the benefits of coffee in cutting oral and esophageal cancer, the risk of a stroke and cirrhosis of the liver.
The benefits are often linked to biologically active compounds including caffeine, flavonoids, lignans, and other polyphenols, which benefit the body. These and othetr coffee compounds regulate genes involved in DNA repair, have anti-inflammatory properties and are associated with lower risk of insulin resistance, which is linked to type-2 diabetes.
But as doctors warn, too much of anything is inadvisable. The British Heart Foundation found the heaviest coffee drinkers in the study were most likely to be men who smoked and drank alcohol regularly.
Excessive amounts of coffee also unsettle the stomach causing or contributing to stomach ulcers. It also stains the teeth over time, hampers absorption of minerals and vitamins like zinc and iron.
It also raises blood pressure, which is largely problematic for people with existing conditions.
So the heaviest drinkers of the black stuff - some in the study had up to 25 cups per day - may want to rein it in.
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