According to a United Nations agency, the number of internally displaced people in Sudan as a result of the fighting has doubled in one week. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced today in Geneva that more than 700,000 people are fleeing within the northeast African country.
A week earlier, the IOM had spoken of an estimated 334,000 internally displaced people in Sudan. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 604 people have died and more than 5,000 have been injured as a result of the four-week fighting.
The power struggle between the Sudanese army and the RSF militia escalated on 15 April. Ceasefire agreements were repeatedly broken. The United Nations has already described the situation as catastrophic. More than 100,000 people have already fled to neighboring countries because of the fighting.
Internationally, fears are growing that Sudan is slipping into a civil war that could destabilize the entire region. Sudan borders Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea