Khartoum, MINA – Nearly 1,700 more people have been displaced from villages in southeastern Sudan’s Blue Nile state amid worsening insecurity, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Saturday, Anadolu Agency reports.
In a statement, the UN agency said its field teams estimated that 1,690 people were displaced from the villages of Abigo, Balang, and Gambarda in Al-Kurmuk locality on September 5. The affected families fled to Baw locality, also in Blue Nile state. “The situation remains tense and volatile,” the IOM said.
On Thursday, the IOM announced that around 3,000 people, comprising 500 families, had been displaced from three villages in Al-Kurmuk locality because of escalating insecurity on August 31.
Blue Nile state has witnessed a military escalation in recent days following attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its ally, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), on several areas. On Friday, authorities in Al-Kurmuk said the Sudanese army had repelled an attack by the RSF and the SPLM-N on the Al-Baraka area.
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In addition to Blue Nile and Darfur, clashes between the Sudanese army and the RSF have continued since October 25 across the three states of the Kordofan region, North, West, and South Kordofan.[]
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
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