More than 1 million people have fled Sudan to neighboring states and people inside the country are running out of food and dying due to lack of healthcare after four months of war, the UN warned on Tuesday.
Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has devastated the capital Khartoum and sparked ethnically driven attacks in Darfur, threatening to plunge Sudan into a protracted civil war and destabilize the region.
The war has caused 1,017,449 people to cross from Sudan into neighboring countries—many already struggling with the impact of conflicts or economic crises—while those displaced within Sudan are estimated to number 3,433,025, according to the latest weekly figures published by the International Organization for Migration.
The millions who remain in Khartoum and cities in the Darfur and Kordofan regions have faced rampant looting and long power, communications, and water cuts.
"The remains of many of those killed have not been collected, identified or buried," but the UN estimates that more than 4,000 have been killed, Elizabeth Throssell, spokesperson for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a briefing in Geneva.
Reports of sexual assaults have increased by 50 percent, said UN population fund official Laila Baker.
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