More than 330,000 people are displaced in Sudan

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Most of them, about 240,000 people, have been displaced in the areas of South and West Darfur, an IOM spokesman said. Even before the conflict, there were 3.7 million displaced persons in Sudan as a result of previous fighting.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more than 100,000 refugees seeking refuge in neighboring countries. Many would arrive in Chad, South Sudan and Egypt.

Among them are Sudanese, but also refugees from other countries who have found refuge in Sudan. UNHCR’s plans are based on the fact that more than 800,000 people could flee if the fighting continues. “We hope it doesn’t come to that,” UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi wrote on Twitter on Monday.

Even before the most recent violence, Sudan was already heavily dependent on international humanitarian aid. The UN appeal for donations for 2023 amounting to 1.75 billion dollars (about 1.6 billion euros) was only 14 percent covered at the beginning of May. The UN organizations urgently needed money to provide assistance, says a spokesman for the UN emergency aid agency OCHA.

Six WHO containers that arrived in Port Sudan by ship were emptied on Tuesday and the material moved to warehouses, a WHO spokesman in Geneva said. The UN already had a lot of aid material in Sudan before the conflict and not all camps had been looted, said the OCHA spokesperson. The material will be distributed as soon as the security situation allows.

In the northeastern African country of some 46 million inhabitants, de facto president Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been fighting since mid-April with the help of the armed forces against his deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, who heads the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF). ). The two generals had taken over the leadership of Sudan through joint military coups.

At the end of last week, the Ministry of Health reported about 530 dead and more than 4,600 injured in the fighting. In the chaos of the fighting, however, it is difficult for the authorities to keep an overview. They assume that the actual numbers are significantly higher.

(SDA)

Source: Blick