Cairo, May 14. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported this Sunday that at least 83,758 Sudanese have already crossed into Egypt through border crossings during a month of violence in Sudan, fleeing the fighting that broke out on April 15 between the Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (FAR).
“In the period between April 15 and May 13, some 88,873 people fled from Sudan to Egypt,” UNHCR said on its official Twitter account, where it clarified that among these displaced “83,758 are Sudanese while 5,115 are of other nationalities “.
The UN agency said Friday that Sudanese displaced to neighboring countries have reached 200,000, of whom the vast majority are women and children.
The considerable increase in this figure is the result of new information transmitted by the authorities of Egypt, located in the north of Sudan, about the number of Sudanese welcomed and the acceleration of arrivals in Chad, from the Sudanese region of Darfur, according to the agency. .
As a result of the conflict, which began on April 15, more than 600 people lost their lives, 190 of whom were children, and more than 5,000 were injured, while the clashes caused the internal displacement of 700,000 Sudanese.
The Sudanese parties to the conflict closed on Friday the so-called Jeddah Declaration, mediated by Saudi Arabia and the United States, which is an agreement in principle to allow the entry of humanitarian aid and protect civilians.
Sudan borders on seven African countries that fear that the consequences of hostilities, such as the displacement crisis or insecurity at their borders, will directly affect them. EFE
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