OCHA: South Sudan has received a large number of refugees from Sudan
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has confirmed that South Sudan has received more than half a million refugees fleeing the conflict in neighboring Sudan.
In its latest report on the Sudan conflict, OCHA says 516,658 people have been confirmed to have arrived in South Sudan since the outbreak of fighting on April 15, 2023. Ocha has also stated that there was an increase in the number of Sudanese citizens registered as asylum seekers in Juba in recent days. Armed clashes began in Sudan on April 15 last year between the country's army led by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the leadership of Commander Hamdan Dagalo where until now international mediation efforts to end the fighting that and convince the rival parties to sit at the negotiation table have hit a rock. For its part, the United Nations Organization for Migration (IOM) says that the war of military generals for power in Sudan has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to neighboring countries. The rival generals in Sudan Refugees from Sudan are entering the neighboring country of South Sudan in a situation where South Sudan itself has a burden of internal refugees. The refugees arriving in South Sudan and the internal refugees of the country are facing bad conditions in the refugee camps due to the lack of various services. The United Nations has announced that aid organizations, including the humanitarian aid community in South Sudan, are looking for urgent funding to transport people fleeing fighting in Sudan.
