CAIRO: Estimates that about a million people might flee Sudan by October may be conservative and conflict there risks increasing people trafficking and spreading weapons across a fragile region, the head of the UN refugee agency said on Monday (May 29). More than 350,000 people have already fled across Sud
The nations bordering Sudan include South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, and Libya, all affected by their own recent conflicts.
"We've seen it in Libya with the Sahel. We don't want a repeat of that because that will be a multiplier of crisis and of humanitarian problems," he said.for US$470 million for its refugee response to the Sudan crisis over six months, an amount that Grandi said was just 1 per cent funded, adding that a donor-pledging conference was"very much needed" and that an international community preoccupied with Ukraine was not paying enough attention.
Grandi said UNHCR was trying to establish a presence in the northern Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa, where many Sudanese men aged 16 to 50 have become stuck applying for visas to enter Egypt, but that he was not sure when this would be possible. Women, children and the elderly do not need visas.
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