violence against civilians This is not about war. “Sudan He already has a terrible record and there are no signs of improvement. Sudanese wars have always attracted attention due to the large number of civilian victims. bombings indiscriminate or attacks communities For all the reasons ethnic“The NGO’s representative in Sudan explains Doctors Unlimited (MSF), Jerome Tubiana From the Prensa Ibérica group to El Periódico de Catalunya, and in this case, the situation could have been different, as Tubiana stated, “essentially a conflict between two components of the Army”, but this bloody conflict leads to a significant event. refugee crisis.
The devastating battle between army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (FSR) chief Mohammed Hamdan Daglo More than 12,000 dead In almost nine months, according to an estimate by the NGO Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (Acled). A recently published study by MSF shows that attacks, especially with firearms, are the cause of death in 82% of cases.
Even before the war, one in three Sudanese was suffering from hunger, and seven million children were out of school, especially in rural areas where almost two-thirds of the population lived. migration flow From Sudan to neighbors Chad And South Sudan this is fixed. This latest conflict alone displaced multiple people seven million people between them 1.3 million refugees managed to reach a foreign country. “Many did not want to remain indefinitely in impoverished refugee camps at the border, as in previous periods. So thousands have already set out for the Mediterranean coast via Libya or Chad, to move Niger, Algeria and Tunisia. We met some Libya, Tunisia, Italy, France…some even went as far as Morocco to pass Spain“says Tubiana. According to Unicef, this could be “world’s largest displaced persons crisis“.
Because of this latest attack, “some “500,000 people took refuge in Chad”Tubiana continues and warns that the neighboring country has been receiving refugees for 20 years and that there may already be close to a million people in this country. The NGO representative says that Chad has therefore “learned from past experiences and is now even more prepared to welcome refugees, even approving a new refugee law that is used as a model.”
“Intergenerational disaster”
Approximately 24 million Sudanese children”generation disaster“Unless the war stops. 14 million children need urgent humanitarian aid in this vast country of 48 million people, with few provinces free from violence, famine and looting. “The conflict in Sudan puts their health and well-being at serious risk. Mandeep O’Brien of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recently warned along the same lines: “This will have serious consequences both for the future of the country and for the entire region.” peace O’Brien insisted that “almost 20 million children will be out of school in Sudan this year unless urgent measures are taken”, emphasizing the need to prevent a generation-long disaster.
“The critical point right now is that regular donors are very I’m less concerned with this crisis “More than 20 years ago because they are focusing on other crises at the same time,” says Tubiana. “There are huge underfunded needs, including food, so our teams are also facing very high rates of malnutrition,” says MSF. .
Some Western countries, such as the United States and France, reacted quickly to this crisis, even granting Sudanese refugees at least temporary protected status, similar to what was done to Ukrainians who fled the country at the beginning of the offensive. This allowed more than one 4 million Ukrainians Get immediate protection in the EU. “There seems to be little interest in Europe in extending the Ukraine exception to other war-torn countries, which has increased criticism of the EU’s double standards between good, white, Christian refugees from Ukraine and others from the global south. ” , Tubiana sentence.