At a press conference in N’Djamena, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, Raouf Mazou, told reporters: “So far, we think we are close to 90,000 people.
The UN estimates the number of those who have fallen to date in the fighting in Sudan since April 15 at around a thousand dead, to which must be added more than a million displaced persons and refugees.
According to Mazo, “more than 250,000 people have left Sudan” to neighboring countries of this country since the beginning of this war between the army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by General Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, nicknamed “Hemedti.”
As for Chad, where the vast majority of these refugees are hosted in temporary camps in the east of the country near the border with Sudan, “more than 90% of these refugees are women and children”, said the UN official.
At the end of a four-day visit to Chad, during which he inspected the camps located in the desert in the east of the country, he added that the UNHCR fears “the rainy season, which will soon begin and will be an additional barrier to supplying them with assistance. »
He added: “We commend Chad for its solidarity” with these refugees, but “Chad cannot do it alone”.
“We urge the international community to share this burden with countries neighboring Sudan and provide urgent support,” he added.
On May 17, the United Nations and its partners appealed for $3 billion to help the millions of people in Sudan and the hundreds of thousands who have fled to neighboring countries, including $470 million “to support refugees, returnees and host communities in the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt and Ethiopia. and the State of South Sudan.
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