IOM: Those who fled their homes in Sudan have exceeded 10 million
The International Organization for Migration has said that the number of people who fled their homes due to the ongoing fighting in Sudan has reached 10.7 million people since the middle of April last year.
The international organization has called this number "staggering" and called for a major international effort to take humanitarian action for what it called the largest number of people displaced in the world. The Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Amy E. Pope, has said that there is one Sudanese in every eight internal refugees in the world, and that those who have fled their homes are suffering from a severe shortage of food, shelter, health services and toilets. , and their poor conditions increase the risk of disease and malnutrition. The UN official has criticized the poor response of the international community, saying it is not enough to meet the urgent needs, and insisting that "we cannot turn our backs on the millions of people who need help." Since April 2023, Sudan has been plunged into a war between the National Army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who is the head of the country's Governing Council, and a group of militants from the Rapid Support Force (RSF) led by Hamdan Dagalo. . A few days ago, the representative of the United Nations Children's Organization (UNICEF) in Sudan warned that the internal war in the country endangers the future of its 24 million youngest citizens.
