London: After failing to secure evacuation from Sudan or running into issues with their travel documents, families from the UK are pleading with the British government to help them reunite with their relatives, it was revealed on Wednesday.

The country is engulfed in a bloody conflict between Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and a paramilitary organisation known as the Rapid Support Forces, led by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. UK citizens and their representative in Westminster told The Independent that their relatives are still trapped in the country.

As a result of the clashes, which have resulted in more than 500 civilian deaths and hundreds of thousands of displaced people across the nation, Saudi Arabia has taken the lead in a rapid evacuation programme.

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British citizens claim that their repeated requests for help rescuing relatives have gone unanswered.

After Rishi Sunak praised the British government for a "successful" operation to "evacuate British nationals who desired to leave, their dependents and other nationalities from Sudan," which ended on Monday, the requests for assistance followed.

The "largest and longest evacuation of any Western country," according to Sunak, "and one that those involved can be proud of."

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An appeal was made to Cardiff MP and Labour Party shadow justice minister Anna McMorrin by a British-Sudanese couple after she dubbed the situation facing Mohamed, 27, and his heavily pregnant wife Manahil, 26, as "desperate."

Just before fighting broke out in Sudan, Manahil applied for a UK visa so she could be with her husband. Her passport is currently stuck at the British embassy in Khartoum, where all of the staff has been evacuated.

"It is just abhorrent to leave a heavily pregnant wife in the fighting. According to McMorrin, who spoke to The Independent, "This is an incredibly hostile response to people who depend on British families. She compared the British response to the unsuccessful attempts to airlift Afghan citizens from that country in the summer of 2021, when Kabul was taken over by the Taliban.

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She said, "We should be stepping up and showing leadership as a country. This happened in Afghanistan where we couldn't repatriate people who were stuck.

According to a UK government spokesperson, the UK evacuated 2,341 people from Sudan in less than a week, making it the longest and largest Western country to do so. The evacuation has always been available to Britons and their qualifying family members, with a later exemption for NHS clinicians.

"Our current focus is on preventing a humanitarian emergency in Sudan," they added. We are working with international allies and the UN to end hostilities in addition to the UK evacuation effort