“Unless there is a quick resolution to this crisis we will continue to see more people forced to flee in search of safety and assistance,” a UN official said.
More than 800,000 people may flee Sudan as a result of the fighting that has raged in the country in recent weeks, a Sudanese official said today. UNclarifying that this number includes many who had arrived in Sudan already being refugees from other countries.
“Unless there is a quick resolution to this crisis we will continue to see more people being forced to flee in search of safety and aid,” Rauf Mazou told a briefing of UN member state representatives at UN headquarters in Geneva.
Sudan was plunged into chaos in the middle of the month when the power struggle between the head of the military junta, Gen. Abdel Fatah al Burhan, and the second-in-command of the military regime, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, or “Khameti”, head of the dreaded Rapid Support Forces (RSF), turned into open war. The fighting, which has claimed hundreds of lives, erupted on April 15 between the two generals who have ruled the country since their 2021 coup, trapping millions of Sudanese.
“In consultations that we have had with all the governments and partners involved we have come to an estimate that around 815,000 people may take refuge in the seven neighboring countries” (of Sudan), added the UN official.
The estimate includes about 580,000 Sudanese, Mazou said, with refugees from South Sudan and other countries taking refuge in Sudan.
In addition, he said that so far, almost 73,000 people have already taken refuge in the following countries: South Sudan, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Central African Republic and Libya.
In the same briefing of representatives of UN member states, the humanitarian aid coordinator of United Nations for Sudan warned that the humanitarian crisis is turning into a “generalized disaster”, noting that the risk of spillover into neighboring countries is worrying.
“It has been more than two weeks of devastating fighting in Sudan, a conflict that is turning Sudan’s humanitarian crisis into a widespread disaster,” Abdu Dieng, a resident and humanitarian aid coordinator in the country, said via video link.
Airstrikes, gunfire and explosions rocked Khartoum again today, despite the announcement of a ceasefire in the fighting between the army and paramilitaries that has plunged Sudan into a humanitarian situation approaching “collapse”, according to the UN.
Source :Skai
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