Over 5m displaced Sudanese return home: UN
The United Nations reports that over five million displaced people have returned to their homes in Sudan despite the ongoing civil war. While this is seen as a sign of progress, the UN warns that these returnees face severe humanitarian challenges and risk being displaced again without urgent support.
Why it matters
It highlights the fragility of the world's largest displacement crisis and the critical need for humanitarian aid in conflict-ridden regions.
GENEVA: More than five million displaced people have opted to return to their areas of origin in Sudan despite ongoing civil war and stark challenges, the United Nations said on Monday.
“Many are going back to a country still wracked by conflict, where damaged homes, schools and clinics cannot meet the needs,” the UN’s International Organization for Migration said in a statement.
“Without urgent support, families risk being uprooted again.”
The war between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that erupted in April 2023 has killed more than 200,000 people, aid workers estimate, and created the world’s largest hunger and displacement crisis.
IOM has previously said that the war at its height displaced around 12 million people inside the country, while the UN refugee agency says nearly five million fled into neighboring countries.
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