UN: 3 M People Fled Sudan Since April 2023

Khartoum, MINA – Some three million Sudanese have fled the country since April last year, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, announced yesterday.

Grandi explained in a statement posted on X that “The number of people who have fled from Sudan since the start of the civil war in April 2023 has now reached 3 million — with many more displaced inside the country.”

“Those fighting for supremacy in Sudan are not only destroying it — they are also emptying it of its own people,” he added.

Since mid-April 2023, the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been fighting over power in a war that has left more than 20,000 dead and over 11 million displaced and as refugees, according to the UN.

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International calls are growing to end the war in order to spare Sudan a humanitarian catastrophe that has begun to push millions to famine and death due to food shortages as a result of the fighting that has spread to 13 out of 18 states. (T/R3/RE1)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) 

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