About 6,500 people crossed the border on Saturday and 3,000 on Sunday, said Kak Badit, the district commissioner.
Dau Atturjong, the army commander in Renk, revealed that three quarters of the arrivals are citizens of South Sudan, and the rest are citizens of Sudan, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda and of Somalia.
Clashes since April 15 between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo have caused tens of thousands of people to flee the areas of clashes to other States, or to Chad, Egypt and South Sudan.
Southern Concerns
South Sudan fears that the effects of the ongoing conflict in Khartoum will spread to its territory, with more than 700,000 southerners in the north, fear of reverse migration and the possibility of stopping the flow of oil by the oil pipeline linking the main oil fields of southern Sudan to the port of Port Sudan.
Oil exports from Sudan and the south may not have been affected by the clashes so far, but the ongoing conflict could prompt South Sudan – the landlocked country – to step up its efforts to seek alternatives to Sudanese ports to export oil, knowing that during the month of March, oil exports from Sudan and the south amounted to nearly 77,000 barrels per day.
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South Sudanese political analyst, Tikwaj Vetter, explained to Sky News Arabia the fears of the south over the repercussions of the conflict from the north, saying: “The conflict in Sudan is having repercussions and repercussions for South Sudan on all political, security, economic, social and humanitarian levels.”
Vetter described these effects, explaining:
Political influence: Sudan is seen as the guarantor of the peace agreement between the warring parties in southern Sudan, and the conflict may necessarily make Sudan preoccupied with its internal situation.
Security impact: The two countries have long common borders, each representing the security depth of the other. These are the border areas between the two countries, which have been a refuge for armed movements and organizations opposing the regime in place in the south.
- The conflict could increase the activities of these groups, and the conflict in Sudan could cause Sudanese armed groups to create security tensions along these borders, particularly in the Abyei region, for which the two countries have begun to adopt a conflict resolution mechanism. dispute and the border dispute about it.
Economic impact: The two countries have economic and trade cooperation which will be affected by the conflict in Khartoum and the resulting instability in Sudan.
- The most important sector of economic cooperation is oil, because the oil of South Sudan, whose pipelines cross the Sudanese territory and are exported through the port of Port Sudan, is threatened.
- Oil represents the backbone of the South Sudanese economy to more than 98% perhaps.
Social and humanitarian impact: it is linked to the situation of refugees from South Sudan, who have chosen Sudan as a place of safety for them, because they are forced to return to the south, which comes with necessities such as resettlement and providing their basic needs of shelter, food and drink, and all of this is happening in light of UN reports which indicate that there are many famine-prone areas in southern Sudan. .
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