4/6/2025–|Last update: 17:23 (Mecca time)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said that about 239,000 refugees are still on the border between Sudan AndChadExplaining that they are at risk of weather fluctuations and insecurity.
In a briefing from the Sudanese Chadian border of reporters in Geneva, the UNHCR coordinator in Chad, Doso Patrice Ahwansu, said that the number of refugees coming from Sudan towards Chad has increased significantly since the attacks on civilians in the north intensified Darfur In late April.
He added: “Nearly 69,000 people arrived in Chad within a little more than a month, and the average of those who cross the border per day reached 1,400 people in recent days.”
Ahwansu said that these civilians “flee under the fire, and move through armed checkpoints, extortion and strict restrictions imposed by armed groups.”
He explained that approximately 72% of the refugees recently met by the Commission reported that they were subjected to severe human rights violations, including physical and sexual violence, arbitrary detention, and forced recruitment, and 60% of them said that they separated from their family members.
Since the start of the war in Sudan in April 2023, more than 844,000 Sudanese refugees expressed to Chad, which was already hosting nearly 409 thousand Sudanese who fled previous waves of conflict in Darfur.
“About 239,000 refugees are still stuck on the border, exposed to weather fluctuations, insecurity and the risk of more violence.”
According to the Commission, four million people have escaped from Sudan to neighboring countries since the beginning of the war, which represents a “catastrophic turning point in the crisis of the largest displacement in the world.”
She said, “With the continued conflict, thousands of others will continue to flee, which endangered regional and global stability.”
And it is going through Sudanese army And Rapid Support Forces Since mid -April 2023 war has killed more than 20,000 people, and the displacement and asylum of about 15 million, according to United Nations The local authorities, while a study prepared by American universities estimated the number of deaths by 130,000.