More than one million people have fled South Sudan as conflict continues in Sudan: UN sudan war news
War broke out in Sudan in April 2023 between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).
According to the United Nations, more than one million people have fled the war in Sudan to seek refuge in neighboring South Sudan.
In its latest update on one of the world’s worst displacement crises, the United Nations released new data on Tuesday showing that more than 770,000 people crossed through the Joda crossing on South Sudan’s northern border with Sudan in the past 21 months. Have run away.
Tens of thousands of people have crossed the border at other points since the war between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) began in April 2023, bringing the total number of people fleeing into South Sudan It has exceeded ten lakhs. According to the statement issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
“The arrival of more than one million people in South Sudan is a serious and worrying figure and truly reflects the growing scale of this crisis,” said Sana Abdallah Omar of UNHCR.
The majority of people crossing the border are South Sudanese citizens who previously fled civil war in the world’s newest country, the statement said.
“The people of South Sudan are showing extraordinary generosity, welcoming those in need and sharing what little resources they have, but they cannot shoulder this huge responsibility alone,” Omar said.
Two transit centers in Renk County on South Sudan’s northern border, which were designed for less than 5,000 people, are now hosting more than 16,000.
The United Nations has called for greater support for both displaced people and the communities hosting them, warning that resources such as health care, water and shelter have been “dangerously overstretched” in South Sudan.
Draught
As the second anniversary of the war approaches, the fighting continues, with the RSF and SAF accusing each other of war crimes, including targeting civilians and indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, resulting in Thousands of people were killed.
At least 20,000 people have died and about 25 million – half the country’s population – are suffering from severe hunger and are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
Last month, the Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-backed global hunger-monitoring group, published a report outlining famine in five areas, including Sudan’s largest displacement camp, Zamzam, in North Darfur province. Did.
According to it, famine conditions persist in Abu Shouk and Al-Salam, two camps for internally displaced people in Al-Fashar, the besieged capital of North Darfur in Western Sudan, as well as in residential and displaced communities in the Nuba Mountains in Southern Sudan. Was confirmed. For report.
