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Highlights
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UNHCR continues to stay and deliver in Sudan, responding to the humanitarian needs of refugees and forcibly displaced in new locations such as Port Sudan, Wadi Halfa, and Wad Madani while maintaining existing programs in Gedaref, Kassala, Blue Nile, and White Nile, where an emergency response is being scaled up in response to the influx of over 140,000 refugees and asylum seekers fleeing Khartoum and other unsafe areas.
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The killing of the Governor of West Darfur along with latest intense fighting led to a significant outflow of Sudanese nationals from El Geneina into Chad. So far over 120,000 Sudanese have fled to Chad.
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Sudanese Ministry of Health has reported that about 3,000 people have been killed and 6,000 injured because of the conflict. Actual figures are likely higher; however, telecommunications challenges and ongoing violence inhibit systematic reporting.
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In North, East and South Darfur when security and connectivity allow, UNHCR is pursuing its remote protection monitoring through community-based protection networks as well as through leaders. In Central and West Darfur, the mobile network has been completely cut off since 19 May, seriously challenging regular reach out to population groups of concern.
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The mapping of internal movements of refugees and asylum seekers points to an estimated 175,987 individuals that have self-relocated within Sudan. Mapping is ongoing of their locations, as well as activities are being developed to meet their most pressing needs in all concerned areas.
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NFI needs are high, and there is a need for replenishment, especially following the looting of some warehouses and lack of access to others (like the ones in Khartoum and South Darfur). NFI are ordered and currently in the pipeline, and shipments with items have arrived in Port Sudan, awaiting to complete the clearance process.