OCHA warns that the fighting in Sudan has left 75,000 internally displaced in just over a week

28 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned this Friday that the fighting between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Army left more than 75,000 internally displaced from April 15 to 22 alone.

Specifically, thousands of people who have fled the fighting have had to move from Khartoum, Blue Nile, North Kordofan, the states of North Darfur, West Darfur and South Darfur, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). ).

“Refugees from other countries who were already living in Sudan when the conflict broke out have also been displaced by the fighting. Around 33,000 refugees are reported to have fled Khartoum for refugee camps in White Nile state, 2,000 to Gedaref fields and 5,000 to Kassala since the crisis began two weeks ago,” he said in a statement.

Likewise, he specified that thousands of people are also fleeing to neighboring countries, such as Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia or South Sudan. Between April 21 and 26, more than 4,700 people arrived in Metema, with more than 1,000 arrivals per day since April 24.

“Tension remains high in Al Obeid, North Kordofan, with reports of heavy shooting and airstrikes. In Ag Geneina, West Darfur, the situation is alarming, with new reports of killings of civilians, including medical personnel, the April 27”, he has sentenced in his report.

The hostilities broke out on April 15 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– in the within the Armed Forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December to form a new civilian government and reactivate the transition.