Sudan conflict rages into its third month displacing more than 2 million people, according to the UN
Nationwide, Sudan's conflict has driven around 2.2 million people from their homes, according to the International Organization for Migration.
A UN official has also warned that the escalating attacks in Darfur city could amount to “crimes against humanity.” Nationwide, Sudan's fighting has driven around 2.2 million people from their homes, according to the International Organization for Migration."In our worst expectations, we didn't see this war dragging on for this long," said Mohamad al Hassan Othman who has fled his home in Khartoum.
A record 25 million people - more than half the population - are in need of aid, according to the UN, which says it has received only a fraction of needed funding.Many of the displaced have lost loved ones as well as"all their belongings and livelihoods", said Anja Wolz of aid g roup Doctors Without Borders.
The conflict's other main battleground, Darfur, was already scarred by a two-decade war that left hundreds of thousands dead and more than two million displaced.The paramilitary RSF forces have been accused of carrying out the assassination of the governor of West Darfur state, Khamis Abdullah Abakar, in a "treacherous attack" on Wednesday.
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