About 2,000 Sudanese cross the border into South Sudan fleeing fighting between the Army and the RSF

23 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

Around 2,000 Sudanese have crossed the border with South Sudan fleeing the fighting that broke out on April 15 between the Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have already left more than 600 dead, as confirmed by the Organization International for Migration (IOM).

The organization’s representative in South Sudan, Peter van der Auwereert, has indicated in statements given to the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera that “around 2,000 people” have arrived in the African country.

“Many of the people who have arrived had the means to achieve it,” he said, before pointing out that the IOM “hopes that the most vulnerable will arrive later.”

The clashes have also left thousands of internally displaced people in the capital, Khartoum, and other areas affected by the fighting, including the states of North Kordofan, Darfur, Yazira, Senar, White Nile and Gedaref, according to the United Nations Office. for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The hostilities broke out in the context of an increase in tensions around the integration of the RSF –led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias ‘Hemedti’, who is also vice president of the Sovereign Transition Council– within the Forces Armed Forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December to form a new civilian government and reactivate the transition.

The talks process began with international mediation after the head of the Army and president of the Sovereign Transition Council, Abdelfatá al Burhan, led a coup in October 2021 that overthrew the then prime minister of unity, Abdalá Hamdok, appointed to the charge as a result of contacts between civilians and the military after the April 2019 riot, which ended 30 years of the regime of Omar Hasan al Bashir.