Military carries out first operational runway repair since Falklands War in Sudan

British military engineers carried out urgent airfield damage repairs at the Wadi Saeedna Air Base in Sudan - the first operational runway repair conducted by UK forces since the Falklands war in 1982.

23 Parachute Engineer Regiment and 24 Commando Royal Engineers carried out the work, known as Airfield Damage Repair, last week as the military evacuated UK nationals out of Sudan from the airfield.

Wadi Saeedna airfield, near the capital Khartoum, was being used by multiple nations to evacuate their citizens from Sudan.

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23 Parachute Engineer Regiment tweeted the airfield "was in a poor state of repair, further exacerbated by the high tempo of heavy, multinational military transport aircraft".

"The work enabled the continued evacuation of UK and other nations' entitled people," they added.

The UK's aerial evacuation mission from Sudan is over with the passengers on the final repatriation flights expected to land in Britain today.

According to the Ministry of Defence (MOD), the RAF has now evacuated more than 2,000 people from Sudan, most of whom are UK nationals or their dependents.

They have also evacuated civilians from more than 20 other nations in support of their allies and partners.