The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has called on the international community to provide urgent support for recovery efforts in Sudan, as more than one million people have returned to the capital, Khartoum, over the past ten months.
According to an IOM report, returnees to Khartoum represent 26% of the total 3.7 million people who were displaced from the city due to the ongoing war, while around 2.7 million others are waiting for improvements in security and humanitarian conditions to return.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) cited IOM data indicating that more than 3,000 people in North Darfur State and about 1,200 people in West and South Kordofan States were displaced within a week as a result of continued fighting.
A joint statement issued by four UN agencies described the situation in Darfur and Kordofan as “extremely alarming,” warning that 30 million people in Sudan are now in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, and that at least 130,000 children have been trapped in El Fasher for the past 16 months.
The IOM, World Food Programme (WFP), UNICEF, and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) jointly called for an immediate cessation of hostilities across the country.
