More than four million refugees have fled Sudan, says UN

More than four million refugees have fled Sudan since the start of his civil war in 2023, say the UN refugee agency officials.

The most “harmful travel crisis in the world” is now in the third year, where many survivors are confronted with a lack of shelter due to financing deficits, according to the UN.

“If the conflict continues in Sudan, we expect that thousands of more people will continue to flee, which means that regional and global stability is at stake,” said spokesperson for UN refugee agency Eujin Byun.

Sudan, which broke out with violence in April 2023, shares borders with seven countries: Chad, South Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Central -African Republic and Libya.

The regular army of Sudan fought the paramilitary rapid strict forces while leaders are fighting for power.

The war killed tens of thousands of people, 13 million displaced – almost a quarter of the Sudan’s population – destroyed the infrastructure of the country and caused famine in some areas.

‘This is a crisis of humanity’

More than 800,000 of the refugees have arrived in Chad, where their accommodation conditions are terrible due to financing deficits, with only 14 percent of the financing rates, said Dossou Patrice Ahouansou of UNHCR.

“This is an unprecedented crisis that we are confronted with,” he said. This is a crisis of humanity.

Many of those flights reported surviving fear and violence, he added, in which he described that a seven-year-old girl met in Chad that was injured in an attack on her house in the Zamzam displacement camp of Sudan.

The girl’s father and two brothers were killed in the attack and her leg was amputated during her escape, he said.

Her mother was killed in an earlier attack, Mr Ahouansou said.

Other refugees told stories about armed groups that took their horses and donkeys and forcing adults to pull their own family members while they fled, he said.

‘Absence of exposure worldwide’

The British Foreign Minister David Lammy said on Monday that there is an “absence of exposure to this crisis worldwide and in a large part of the Western world”.

“The crisis in Sudan … is currently the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world and it is a matter of deep, deep care,” Lammy said.

In just over a month, more than 65,000 refugees have arrived in the provinces of Wadi Fira van Tsjaad and an average of 1,400 people who crossed the border every day in recent days, according to the UN refugee office.

“These citizens flee in fear, many under fire, navigate armed checkpoints, extortion and tight restrictions imposed by armed groups,” the agency said.

More than 17 million Sudanese children are from school, 5,000 were abducted or missing and 3,000 children died in the war that broke out between the Sudanese forces (SAF) and the rival RSF on April 15, 2023, according to the Sudan’s National Council for Child Welfare.

Child abuse has deteriorated since the outbreak of the war, in which UN reports reveal that children have been violated with violence as hunters and cases of sexual abuse and slavery have increased.

Help has often come under the crossfire in the two -year -old war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid strict forces, who have left more than half of the population confronted with crisis levels of hunger.

Refugees currently receive only 5 liters of water per person per day, well below the international standard of 15 to 20 liters for basic day needs.

As part of the Sudan Regional Refugee Response, UNHCR and Partners in Chad are urgently looking for more than US $ 550 million ($ 850) to respond to the life-saving needs of refugees who flee Sudan to East-Jaad, including protection, food, water and sanitary facilities.

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