Over a million people flee to South Sudan as Sudan conflict grinds on: UN
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The war in Sudan erupted in April 2023, between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army (SAF).
More than one million people have fled the war in Sudan to seek refuge in neighbouring South Sudan, according to the United Nations.
In its latest update on one of the world’s worst displacement crises, the UN issued new data on Tuesday showing that more than 770,000 people have fled through the Joda crossing on South Sudan’s northern border with Sudan in the last 21 months.
Tens of thousands more have crossed the border at other points, bringing the total to have fled to South Sudan since the war between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) erupted in April 2023 to more than a million, according to the statement issued by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
“The arrival of over a million people into South Sudan is a stark and sobering statistic and truly shows the increasing scale of this crisis,” the UNHCR’s Sanaa Abdalla Omer said.
Most crossing the border are South Sudanese nationals who had previously fled from civil war in the world’s newest country, the statement noted.
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