NEW YORK: The United Nations has said that over 5.25 million people have been displaced due to the ongoing war between the Sudanese regular army and the Rapid Support Forces, Western media reported on Thursday.
“More than 5.25 million people have been displaced outside and inside Sudan since April when the war flared up,” said UN OCHA Sudan on social media.
Over 5.25 M people have been displaced within & outside #Sudan since April when the conflict flared up.
❗️ Over 4.1M people internally displaced, per @IOMSudan
❗️ Over 1.1M people crossed the borders of Sudan, per @UNHCRinSudan #CostOfInaction pic.twitter.com/R6qbvyYtn9
— UN OCHA Sudan (@UNOCHA_Sudan) September 14, 2023
The UN agency added more than 4.1 million people are internally displaced, quoting IOM Sudan while 1.1 million have left the African nation.
As per media reports, over 3,000 civilians have been killed and thousands wounded in the conflict since April in Sudan.
Earlier, at least 40 people, all civilians, were killed in an air strike in the western Darfur region of war-torn Sudan on Wednesday, AFP reported, citing a medical source.
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“At least 40 civilians have been killed in an air raid that targeted two markets and several neighbourhoods of the city,” the medical source told AFP from a hospital in Nyala area, the capital of South Darfur region. Witnesses in the area reported air strikes targeting two markets and causing civilian casualties in the second-biggest city of Sudan, where fighting escalated last month.
The vast region of Darfur — home to a quarter of the population of Sudan — has witnessed some of the worst fighting in the war between Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by Burhan’s former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, and the regular army.
