IOM Regional Response to South Sudan Crisis, External Situation Report, 8 - 15 April 2015

A robust response is required to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. The plan aims to immediately and rapidly scale-up operations and to increase the provision of protection and life-saving assistance.

More than 100,000 people who have fled violence in Sudan’s Blue Nile State are struggling to survive in an inhospitable stretch of land in South Sudan, where infrastructure, health care resources, and water capacity are extremely limited, and where they are now wholly dependent on humanitarian...

More than 740,000 refugees have fled Sudan and arrived to harrowing conditions in neighbouring countries; in addition, more than 185,000 refugees have been forced to move to safer areas within Sudan.