The displacement crisis prompted by ongoing conflict in Sudan continues unabated with nearly six million people forced out of their homes and women and children making up nearly nine in 10 of those uprooted, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday.
"Inside Sudan itself there are a lot of people in urban settings that are affected equally and who do not have the resources to leave."on Wednesday voted to set up a high-level probe"to investigate and establish the facts, circumstances and root causes of all alleged human rights violations" in Sudan.
As a result of the conflict that erupted in mid-April between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces and other armed groups in mid-April, the UN agency described how families had faced harrowing journeys and become separated while on the move, amid increasing reports of gender-based violence. Malnourishment among children is now described as a major crisis, along with disease outbreaks.
"In my long career as a humanitarian worker what I have seen in Chad with this new emergency with such a rapid and vast displacement of people is the first time," said Abdouraouf Gnon Konde, UNHCR's Regional Director for West and Central Africa.To put this in perspective,"Chad has hosted more refugees in these mere five months than it has in the past 20 years becoming now undeniably the epicentre of this crisis," Mr. Konde said.
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