For 21 days now, fighting between the army and paramilitaries has been raging in Sudan. Around 700 people were killed, at least 5,000 injured and 115,000 driven into exile.
About 9,700 people have crossed the border into the Central African Republic from neighboring Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries in the war for power has been raging for 21 days, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Office (OCHA) announced on Friday. Central African Republic.
Some “9,700 people, including 3,460 Central African returnees, have preventively crossed the border from Sudan and are staying with host families or settled in spontaneous camps”, in the town of Am-Dafock, bordering Sudan in the north of the Central African Republic, OCHA said in a press release sent to our colleagues at AFP on Friday.
“Their number is expected to increase as registration continues,” it also read.
The organization also indicates that “senior humanitarian and government officials have visited Am-Dafock” to assess the situation in this “flood-prone” region, and access to which should be “very limited” after the start of the crisis. rainy season (end of May), worries OCHA.
About 700 dead and more than 5,000 injured
The UN points out that in the Central African Republic 3.4 million people – or 56% of the population – “need assistance and protection”. In the north of this country, one of the poorest in the world and in the grip of a civil war for several years, “120,000 people need food assistance”, specifies the organization.
On the 21st day of conflict in Sudan, residents of the capital Khartoum were awakened by airstrikes and machine gun fire, despite promises of a truce. The fighting between the army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and the Rapid Support Forces (FSR) of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, have since April 15 killed around 700 people, according to the NGO ACLED which lists the victims. of conflicts.
The fighting has left more than 5,000 injured, displaced at least 335,000 people and pushed 115,000 others into exile, according to the UN, which is claiming 402 million euros to help the country, one of the poorest in the world.
The UN warns that 860,000 people, Sudanese but also many South Sudanese returning to their country, could cross the borders in the coming months.
“More than 56,000 people” have arrived in Egypt, according to the UN, “more than 12,000” in Ethiopia and “30,000 in Chad”.
