Over a million people flee South Sudan as Sudan conflict escalates: UN | News about the war in Sudan

The war in Sudan broke out in April 2023. between the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).

More than one million people have fled the war in Sudan to search asylum in neighboring South Sudan, according to the United Nations.

In its latest update to one of the world's the worst displacement crisesThe UN issues a new data on Tuesday, showing that more than 770,000 people have fled through the Joda crossing on South Sudan's northern border with Sudan in the past 21 months.

Tens of thousands more have crossed the border elsewhere, bringing the total number of people who have fled South Sudan since the outbreak of war between the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in April 2023. reached more than a million, according to a statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

“The arrival of over one million people in South Sudan is a stark and sobering statistic and really shows the growing scale of this crisis,” said UNHCR's Sana Abdallah Omer.

Most of those crossing the border are South Sudanese nationals who previously fled civil war in the world's newest country, the statement noted.

“The people of South Sudan continue to show extraordinary generosity, welcoming those in need and sharing the few resources they have, but they cannot shoulder this enormous responsibility alone,” Omer added.

Two transit centers in Renk District on South Sudan's northern border, which were designed for fewer than 5,000 people, now host more than 16,000.

The UN has called for more support for both displaced people and their host communities, warning that resources in South Sudan such as health, water and shelter have become “dangerously overstretched”.

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The war continues to rage as it nears its second anniversary, with the RSF and SAF accusing each other of war crimes, including targeting civilians and indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

At least 20,000 people have been killed, and some 25 million – half the country's population – are suffering from acute hunger and are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.

Last month, the UN-backed global hunger monitoring group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Hunger Review Committee published a report charting famine in five areas, including Sudan's largest IDP camp, Zamzam, in North Darfur province.

Famine conditions were confirmed in Abu Shuq and al-Salam, two camps for internally displaced people in el-Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, as well as residential and displaced communities in the Nubian Mountains of southern Sudan, according to the report. .