Sudan: “More than 10 million people displaced by conflict”, warns IOM

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) expects more than 10 million people displaced by the conflict in Sudan, a figure that will be reached in the coming days. The world’s worst crisis of internal displacement continues to decline, with risks of famine and illness adding to the devastation of the conflict, reveals the organization in its latest assessment of the situation in Sudan.

“The IOM’s displacement monitoring matrix, which provides weekly statistics, registered this week 9.9 million individuals displaced within Sudan’s 18 states – 2.8 million before the war. April 2023, and 7.1 million since then. More than half of the internally displaced people are women and more than a quarter are children under the age of five,” we read in the same press release.