FCDO Advises Against All Travel to Sudan Due to Ongoing Military Conflict – May 2026
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) maintains an 'advise against all travel' warning for Sudan due to ongoing military conflict in Khartoum and other parts of the country. The advisory was updated on 7 May 2026 with new information on operations in Sudanese airports. Multiple ceasefires have been declared but regularly broken, and the British Embassy in Khartoum remains closed with no consular staff present in-country.
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Low impact. LOW: Fourth-pass historical recalibration. This is a travel/security/advisory update rather than a discrete London Market loss event. It may be useful background context, but the available reporting does not evidence a current insured-loss pathway such as named insured asset damage, vessel/cargo loss, port/airspace/waterway closure, energy/facility outage, claims/loss estimate, sanctions asset action, reinsurance impact, or market pricing/capacity response.
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