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Sudan Situation: UNHCR External Update #70, 12 - 18 July 2024

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  • In a press briefing on 16 July, the Office of the Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary- General highlighted challenges organizations in Sudan continue to face in the delivery of critical assistance, including the ongoing insecurity, access constraints, and funding shortfalls. The SG’s office reiterated calls for increased and sustained donor support for the response.
  • UNHCR’s first-ever Forced Displacement Survey (FDS), a pilot socioeconomic survey, warns that the ongoing conflict in Sudan is exacerbating the already severe humanitarian crisis in South Sudan for refugees and the communities hosting them. Conducted between April and December 2023 on some 3,100 households in South Sudan, the survey showed that refugee and hosting communities face similar challenges that aggravate protection risks and limit self-reliance opportunities.
  • More than 1,000 people fleeing violence in Sudan cross the border into South Sudan daily, overwhelming the already overcrowded transit centres in Renk town. Most are South Sudanese returning refugees who had been living in Sudan since fleeing their country’s own civil war. One of them shares their story. (Video)
  • Radhouane Nouicer, the Designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has sounded the alarm about the dire human rights situation in the country as the fighting spreads to new areas.