This week the IOM Displacement Monitoring Matrix registered 9.9 million inhabitants in this situation of vulnerability throughout the 18 States of Sudan, while the risks due to lack of food grow, the institution indicated in a release.
More than half of all those affected are women and more than a quarter are children under five years of age, the United Nations system organization stressed.
“Imagine a city the size of London being completely displaced. Something like this is happening under the constant threats of crossfire, famine, disease and brutal ethnic and gender-based violence,” said IOM Director General Amy Pope.
According to the source, in total about 12 million human beings have been forced to leave their homes in that African country, and more than two million crossed the borders to neighboring nations, including Chad, South Sudan and Egypt.
After several years of extended crisis, a full-scale civil war broke out in Sudan in mid-April 2023, as intense fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the capital Khartoum. of the country, he recalled.
In the opinion of the IOM, “the brutality and intensity of the war is relentless, with reports of serious human rights violations that include ethnic violence, rape and gang rape as tools of combat.”
Essential infrastructure, including health care, collapsed, while food, water and fuel prices skyrocketed; In this way, access to these essential goods is almost impossible, the statement added.
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