[AFRICANEWS] The countries bordering Sudan, which has been shaken by fighting for the past two months, must "keep their borders open", urged the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, in an interview on Tuesday, after announcing that more than half a million people had fled the country.
"My appeal to all neighbouring countries is to say 'I understand your security concerns, but please keep your borders open, because these are people fleeing for their lives'," said Mr. Grandi, who was in Nairobi to mark world refugee day.
The fighting in Sudan that broke out on April 15th between the army, commanded by general Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and the paramilitary rapid support forces (RSF), led by general Mohammed Hamdane Daglo, has left more than 2,000 people dead, according to the NGO ACLED.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Grandi announced that the number of people who had fled Sudan to seek refuge abroad had now exceeded 500,000, and that the number of displaced persons in the country had reached two million.
"It's a worrying situation with neighbouring countries that are very fragile" and "insecurity that risks spreading," he shared.
According to the United Nations, more than 150,000 people have fled Darfur to neighbouring Chad, one of the least developed countries in the world, which is already hosting tens of thousands of refugees, particularly from Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
and the Central African Republic. Many Sudanese have also fled to South Sudan and Egypt.
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