The UN estimates that up to 800,000 civilians can escape from Sudan and seek protection in a neighboring country in the coming weeks, as the African nation plunges into a new armed conflict that in two weeks has already forced more than 100,000 people to flee to save their lives.
The spokeswoman for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Olga Sarradosaid that his body is using the projection of 800,000 potential escapees for your financial and operational planning.
Of those potential new refugees, 600,000 would be Sudanese and people from other countries who were refugees in Sudan and who will now seek protection in a third country.
The 200,000 remaining would be refugees south sudanese and from other nations that choose to return to their countries prematurely, explained Sarrado.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a meeting with journalists that it must also be considered that in Sudan there are more than 330,000 internally displaced.
Chad and Egypt are the countries where more Sudanese refugees are arriving, in particular Women and children; but these are also fleeing to the Central African Republic, Ethiopia and South Sudan itself.
With the exception of Egypt, the rest of the countries already support the weight of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the region, as well as internally displaced persons, and the arrival of the Sudanese now is generating a sharp increase in needs, in terms of food, water, medical care and shelter spaces.
UNHCR said that in Chad some of the new arrivals spend the day and sleep abroad, and efforts are being made to speed up the registration and identification process.
The situation in Darfur -a region of western Sudan that suffered from an ethnically colored military conflict that broke out in 2003 and caused more than 300,000 dead– is of particular concern to UNHCR, which fears that it “could ignite pre-existing ethnic and inter-communal tensions related to access to land and other resources”.
On the other hand, the UN also revealed that its humanitarian operation in Sudan, which it carries out through its agencies and a network of NGOs, is suffering a severe funding gaphaving received only the 14% of the $1.75 billion that it had requested to operate in the country in 2023.
(With information from EFE)
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