Over seven hundred Sudanese get displaced in single day

(MENAFN) More than 700 people were displaced in a single day across South and North Kordofan in southern Sudan as insecurity escalated, with attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) driving civilians from their homes, according to UN reports.

Field teams from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated that on Saturday, around 650 residents of Imran village in Ar-Rahad locality, North Kordofan, fled due to “escalating insecurity” and relocated to various sites within the locality. Additionally, 150 people from Kaiga Al-Khayl in Kadugli locality, South Kordofan, were documented as displaced, moving to different areas across South and West Kordofan.

UN agencies estimate that over 41,000 people have fled increasing violence in the two Kordofan states over the past month. Kadugli, in particular, has been under siege by the RSF and the allied Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North since the early stages of the conflict, enduring repeated artillery and drone attacks.
Accurate population data for the city is unavailable due to multiple waves of displacement to surrounding areas.

UNICEF representative in Sudan, Sheldon Yett, recently confirmed that famine conditions have emerged in Kadugli.

The three Kordofan states—North, West, and South—have been the site of intense clashes between Sudanese army forces and the RSF, prompting tens of thousands to leave their homes.

Of Sudan’s 18 states, the RSF currently controls all five states of the Darfur region in the west, with the exception of some northern areas of North Darfur under army control. The Sudanese army, meanwhile, maintains control over most of the remaining 13 states, including the south, north, east, center, and the capital, Khartoum.

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