Highlights
- On 25 June UNHCR called for urgent international support as the humanitarian crisis in eastern Chad reaches a critical point during a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. With increasing numbers of Sudanese refugees in border areas, rising health concerns, escalating security incidents and the impending rainy season, immediate action is needed. To cover immediate needs, UNHCR urgently requires $80 million to build three additional sites with essential services and infrastructure to relocate 150,000 new arrivals away from the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions and provide them with lifesaving assistance including shelter, food, clean water, access to health and education.
- With over 600,000 new Sudanese refugees in Chad and more streaming in every day, underfunded humanitarian agencies are struggling to provide adequate assistance. Read more on the story of Hadji Al Nour Sar’s simple wish.
- As the war rages on, millions still languish in displacement camps. Nyapuot Riak Dup recalls the fateful day last April when a piece of shrapnel ripped through her house in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman and smashed a hole through the floor near where she was hiding.
- Sudan continues to spiral into chaos, with the humanitarian crisis worsening and the horrific toll of the conflict having on civilians in Al Fasher and other conflict hotspots across the country. The lives of 800,000 people – of women, children, men, the elderly, and people with disabilities – are hanging in the balance as bombing and shelling continue in densely populated areas, causing widespread and long-term harm to civilians and severely disrupting the essential services they very much depend on.
- As the armed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rage on in El Fasher city in North Darfur, more warnings have been raised about the dangers of escalating violence against health personnel and facilities in the city. Reports from the Sudan Tribune indicate that the death toll in El Fasher has risen to over 260, with more than 1500 injured since fighting began in May, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the Ministry of Health in Darfur.
- Despite multiple truce agreements in Sudan between the warring parties, fighting has continued.
While Khartoum state remains the epicenter of fighting, violence has been particularly deadly in Darfur region, where RSF-backed militia activity has been on the rise. The conflict has also expanded to and escalated in other areas, including South Kordofan where the Abdelaziz al-Hilu faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) took over several SAF camps during the second week of June. - On 24 June the EU adopted sanctions against six people in Sudan over the civil war. The listings include a general commanding the RSF in West Darfur, who the EU Council said is responsible for committing atrocities, instigating ethnically motivated killings, sexual violence and the looting and burning of communities.