ALBAWABA - Over 600,000 thousand refugees were forcibly displaced from their homes in Sudan to Chad, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated.
The UNHCR warned that the humanitarian crisis in eastern Chad is reaching a critical point, calling for urgently needed humanitarian support for the Sudanese refugees in Chad.
"The conflict in Sudan has forced over 600,000 refugees and 180,000 Chadian returnees, the vast majority of them women and children, to flee into Chad, with more than 115,000 arriving since the start of 2024," the report reads.
According to the report, one-third of the recently arrived refugees in Chad are reportedly living in "dire conditions" at makeshift locations along the border.
As violence persisted in Darfur, the UNHCR issued a warning, stating that additional displacement was anticipated and that conditions on the Chad-Sudan border were "deteriorating rapidly".
Earlier on Tuesday, fierce battles sparked between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at Abu Shouk camp, resulting in the killing of at least 4 and an additional 16 injuries, according to the Coordination of Resistance Committees in El Fasher, North Darfur state.
Since the war waged on April 15, 2023, more than 10 million people have been internally and externally displaced in Sudan, according to a report released by the International Organization for Migration on Tuesday.
The conflict in Sudan broke out in April 2023 between Army General, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and RSF commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, over disagreements about integrating the RSF into the military.
According to UN estimates, the fighting has claimed the lives of up to 16,000 people, displaced millions, and left Sudan with a dire humanitarian catastrophe.
