By Ochogwu Sunday The number of people displaced inside Sudan on Wednesday by fighting between rival military factions rose to mor...
By Ochogwu Sunday
The number of people displaced inside Sudan on Wednesday by
fighting between rival military factions rose to more than one million,
according to the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
IOM said another 319,000 people have fled to neighbouring
countries. Egypt, Sudan’s northern neighbour, took in the largest share of the
refugees, with more than 132,000 people, while Chad took in some 80,000
refugees and South Sudan about 69,000.
A long-simmering power struggle in Sudan escalated violently
on April 15.
The army under the command of the de facto president, Abdel
Fattah al-Burhan, is fighting the paramilitary units of his deputy, Mohammed
Hamdan Daglo.
The two generals jointly seized power in 2021.
Even before the current crisis, Sudan was known for being
one of the poorest and most politically unstable countries in the world, with
3.7 million internally displaced people due to previous crises.
Now, IOM warns of a further deterioration of the
humanitarian situation in the country, which has a total population of around
46 million.
The fighting is making access to basic goods and fuel
increasingly difficult.
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