30.10.2024
International Organization for Migration counts over 14 million forced from their homes with hunger, disease and sexual violence rampant.
War in Sudan has displaced more than 14 million people and sexual violence is being seen on a “staggering” scale, United Nations agencies report.
The civil conflict has created the world’s largest displacement crisis this year, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan said in a new report that paramilitaries are preying on the female population.
IOM Director-General Amy Pope described the situation in the war-torn African country as “catastrophic” in remarks to the press.
Outlining how women and girls are being abducted for sexual slavery, the fact-finding mission’s chair Mohamed Chande Othman said: “There is no safe place in Sudan now.”
Sudan’s vicious civil war erupted in April 2023 following a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the army’s former paramilitary allies, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which previously collaborated to remove former President Omar al-Bashir in a 2019 military coup.