Mon. Sep 16th, 2024

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced that the number of displaced people and refugees in Sudan as a result of fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces since mid-April has risen to more than 7.5 million people.

The international organization said in a report according to Anatolia that “the ongoing fighting is causing more significant internal displacement, and to neighboring countries.”

“The conflict in Sudan has caused cross-border movements of one million 550,344 people to neighboring countries, led by Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central Africa, South Sudan and Ethiopia,” the organization said.

The UN said difficulties continue to be made in “the distribution of humanitarian aid in the country due to the continued insecurity, instability of communication networks and high prices of food commodities.”

On Dec. 21, the organization said, “some 300,000 people have fled Wad Madani,” the capital of Gezira state, Sudan’s second-largest city, in the latest wave of large-scale displacement after fighting spread across the region.

She said at the time that the move of the fighting to Gezira state brought the total number of displaced people in Sudan to more than 7.1 million, “the largest displacement crisis in the world.”

Since mid-April 2023, the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces have been fighting a war that has left more than 12,000 dead and millions displaced.

Related Post