The United Nations (UN) reported that the humanitarian crisis that Sudan is going through, after 18 months of war, has brought almost three million people to flee the country.
Mamadou Dian Balde, UN regional refugee coordinator in Sudan, revealed in an interview in Geneva that during the first week of October 25 thousand people They crossed into Chad due to its geographical proximity.
Furthermore, the official highlighted that the three million mark will probably be crossed in the next few years. two or three weeks. Dian Balde described the event as a “disaster” and blamed the migrations on the growing brutality of the conflict.
Darfurin western Sudan, where violence is worsening, faces a serious humanitarian crisis, with famine declared in the Zamzam displacement camp.
According to figures from UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, more than 11.3 million people fledwhile around 2.95 million sought refuge in other countries.
Since the beginning of the conflict in 2013, Chad became a common destination for Sudanese refugees, currently hosting 681 thousand 941 of them.
However, the country faces significant challenges, as it is one of the poorest in the world and lacks the necessary services to serve such a large number of people.
Faced with the emergency, Dian Balde urged a major international supportnoting that only 27 percent of the U.N.’s $1.51 billion appeal has been funded so far.