Around 10,000 refugees entered South Sudan Sudan in recent days to avoid violent clashes between the regular army and the Rapid Support Force (RSF) paramilitaries, South Sudan’s Renk County officials said on Monday.
About 6,500 people crossed the border yesterday, Saturday, another 3,000 yesterday, Sunday, and more are arriving today, county commissioner Kak Padiet told Reuters.
The military commander at Renk Daw Atturzong said that three-quarters of the arrivals were citizens of South Sudan, while the rest were citizens of Sudan, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda and Somalia.
Sudan is home to 800,000 South Sudanese refugees who have fled their country to escape protracted conflicts. South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011.
“Local authorities and local residents are helping the new arrivals,” Atturzong added in a statement to Reuters. “So far, no humanitarian organizations have intervened,” he continued.
More than 2 million people are also internally displaced in South Sudan, where the civil war from 2013 to 2018 is estimated to have killed about 400,000 people.
Source: APE-MEB, Reuters
Source: Kathimerini
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