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Sudan: more than a million people have fled ‘spiralling’ conflict, says UN

Sudan: more than a million people have fled ‘spiralling’ conflict, says UN

Joint statement from UN agencies lays bare the effect of violence on the country’s food and healthcare systems

More than 1 million people have fled Sudan to neighbouring states, as people inside the country are running out of food and dying due to a lack of healthcare after four months of war, the United Nations has said.

Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has devastated the capital Khartoum and sparked ethnically driven attacks in Darfur, threatening to plunge Sudan into a protracted civil war and destabilise the region.

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