Sudan’s War Displaces Over Two Million People From Their Homes

Afimag.com –

More than two million people in Sudan have been displaced from their homes due to two months of fighting between the country’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The country was plummeted into crisis on April 15 when months-long tensions between the army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF commander, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, broke out into war.

The fighting continued unabated till June 14, 2023, in parts of the capital, Khartoum, and the western region of Darfur – places that have seen some of the worst battles so far. At least 959 civilians have been killed and about 4,750 others were wounded as of June 12, according to the Sudan Doctors Syndicate, which tracks civilian casualties.

The medical group said the toll could be much higher given that it was unable to take into account those who were killed or wounded in the ongoing clashes in el-Geneina, the provincial capital of West Darfur. The city’s hospitals have been out of service since the fighting erupted there in April, the group said.

The brutal clashes have forced more than 1.6 million people to leave their homes for safer areas inside Sudan, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). About 530,000 others have fled to the neighbouring countries of Egypt, South Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, the Central African Republic and Libya, the UN’s migration agency said.

All of Sudan’s 18 provinces have experienced displacement, with Khartoum at the top of the list with about 65 percent of the total number of displaced people, followed by West Darfur with more than 17 percent, according to the IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix.