IOM: 20,000 new displaced persons in Sudan every day
Published: Monday, Apr 15th 2024, 10:30
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According to a UN report, around 20,000 people are newly displaced every day in Sudan one year after the start of the civil war. More than half of them are children and young people, the UN Organization for Migration (IOM) reported in Geneva on Monday.
According to UN estimates, more than 8.6 million people have been displaced from their villages and towns within a year. According to the IOM, around two million have fled across the borders, mainly to Chad (around 730,000), South Sudan (around 630,000) and Egypt (around 515,000).
A bloody power struggle broke out in Sudan in mid-April 2023 between de facto head of state Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy and leader of the Sudanese militia RSF, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
"Sudan is sadly on track to become one of the biggest humanitarian crises of recent decades," said IOM Director General Amy Pope. "The conflict that has gripped the country is creating pressure across the region. Millions of people are displaced, starving and subject to exploitation and abuse, but their plight is ignored by much of the world." Pope was attending a conference in Paris to mobilize aid funds and find ways out of the crisis.
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