Nearly 20,000 displaced as fighting worsens in Sudan's Blue Nile state
The Geissan Emergency Room, a local relief organisation, reported that nearly 20,000 people have fled their homes in Blue Nile state due to deteriorating security and intensifying armed clashes. This displacement is part of a larger crisis affecting Sudan, where around 200,000 people were displaced nationwide in August alone.
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A local relief organisation called the Geissan Emergency Room announced on Sunday that nearly 20,000 people have been displaced in Sudan's Blue Nile state in recent days. According to the group, residents left their homes because of worsening security conditions and increasingly intense fighting in the region. The displacement adds to months of ongoing instability in Blue Nile state, which has been repeatedly affected by clashes between warring parties. Similar displacement has been reported from Blue Nile and other Sudanese regions in recent weeks. United Nations agencies reported in August that approximately 200,000 people were newly displaced across the country as fighting intensified at the same time as seasonal flooding. Mass movement of people was also documented in West Darfur and North Kordofan. Humanitarian organisations have warned repeatedly that Sudan's civil war, combined with the effects of heavy rainfall damaging already fragile shelters, has created one of the world's largest displacement crises. The UN's humanitarian appeal for Sudan has received only about 41 percent of required funding according to reporting from earlier in the month. No casualty figures were immediately available regarding the latest displacement in Blue Nile state.
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