The confrontation between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (FAR), of rival paramilitaries, has already caused the displacement of more than five million people, the United Nations agency for Migration announced on Wednesday.
More than four million people have been internally displaced since fighting began in mid-April, while another 1.1 million have fled to neighboring countries, the International Organization for Migration announced.
More than 750,000 people have fled to Egypt or Chad, according to the United Nations agency.
International efforts to mediate the conflict have failed to date, despite at least nine ceasefire agreements having been signed since the conflict began.
Sudan was plunged into chaos almost five months ago, when long-simmering tensions between the military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the FAR, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, former number 2 of the Council, erupted. in open war. – the military junta that seized power in the country through the coup that overthrew former dictator Omal al-Bashir in April 2019.
The fighting reduced the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to an urban battlefield, with neither side able to gain control of the city.
In western Darfur, the scene of a genocidal campaign in the early 2000s, the conflict escalated into ethnic violence, with the FAR and allied Arab militias targeting ethnic African groups, according to human rights groups and the United Nations.
Source: TSF
