Khartoum, May 9(Darfur24) The number of Internally Displaced People IDPs inside Sudan has doubled in the past week to more than 700,000, Paul Dillon, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, said on Tuesday, in light of the continued fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces RSF.
“The number of internally displaced persons IDPs in Sudan has doubled in the past week,” Dillon told a news conference in Geneva.
Last week, the organization announced that the number of displaced people inside Sudan had reached about 340,000.
Armed confrontations broke out in the middle of this month between the army and the Rapid Support Forces RSF in the capital, Khartoum, and a number of cities in the states of Darfur, killing 700 people and injuring thousands, according to the World Health Organization WHO.
Thousands of refugees also fled to neighboring countries, in light of the dire humanitarian situation in the country.