Officials in South Sudan announced Tuesday that Sudan’s warring generals had agreed to yet another cease-fire, even as fighting continued and the United Nations refugee agency warned that more than 800,000 flee Sudan could flee because of the violence
Officials in South Sudan announced Tuesday that Sudan’s warring generals had agreed to yet another cease-fire, even as fighting continued and the U.N.'s refugee agency warned that more than 800,000 could flee Sudan because of the violence.The week-long cease-fire is set to begin Thursday, according to a statement from South Sudan’s Foreign Ministry, which brokered the agreement.
Already, more than 100,000 refugees have fled Sudan — which was plunged into violence three weeks ago by two warring generals — and hundreds of thousands have been displaced internally, U.N. officials said Tuesday at a briefing in Geneva. The International Organization for Migration also said that 334,053 people had been internally displaced within the country since fighting broke out April 15.The U.N.
“We perform deliveries under bombardment,” Al-Hassan said, “and everyone rejoices and rejoices when they hear the cries of the newborn.”But the future looks bleak, she said, as doctors grapple with unsanitary conditions, corpses accumulate and outbreaks threaten. Even before the crisis began, nearly 16 million Sudanese did not have enough to eat and needed aid. Now, conflict is turning the humanitarian crisis into a “full-blown catastrophe,” Abdou Dieng, the top U.N. aid official in the country, said Monday.The U.N.’s World Food Program would have reached about 2.
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