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The British Ambassador to Sudan emerged from his London home today to assure stranded Britons that every effort was being made to evacuate them to safety.
Wearing a fleece and jeans, Giles Lever, who has experience of defying the Taliban while he was stationed in Kabul, said he had returned to Britain for a holiday from Khartoum and circumstances forced him to stay on and help from London.
Speaking outside his home in leafy Wimbledon, Mr Lever told MailOnline: ‘I came back here for a scheduled holiday at Easter and have been unable to return. I had been working solidly on the problems in Sudan for three months before I left.
‘I hadn’t seen my wife at Christmas and my holiday was approved by my boss. But I cannot get back there.
‘But it is incorrect to say that the embassy had been abandoned. There was a very senior diplomat, my deputy, in charge while I took leave.’
Giles Lever, the UK's ambassador to Sudan, pictured outside his London Home
The Indonesian Embassy in central Khartoum is now the scene of a damaged battle-ground
Mr Lever said he had been working
