2024-01-31T12:40:50+00:00
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/ The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, revealed on Wednesday that about eight million people have been displaced from Sudan due to the fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
In a statement from Sudan, Grandi noted that “despite the challenges, Ethiopia continues to host people fleeing war and violence in neighboring countries, as I saw yesterday on the Sudanese border,” according to Agence France-Presse.
“I am pleased to have been able to personally thank Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for Ethiopia’s continued good policies towards refugees,” he added.
Since April 15, 2023, the war in Sudan between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, has killed more than 13,000 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), a non-governmental organization whose tally is based on the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).