أزمة اللاجئين السودانيين 2023


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2023 Sudanese refugee crisis
جزء من 2023 Sudan conflict
التاريخ15 April 2023–present
الموقع

An ongoing refugee crisis began in Africa in mid-April 2023 after a large eruption of violence occurred in Sudan. By 24 April 2023 more than 30,000 people had fled the country.[1][2] These included diplomats and citizens as a whole. Several foreign citizens from, Somalia, Eritrea, Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom, Kenya and Uganda.[3][4][5][6] Thousands more were reported to have been displaced mainly Khartoum civilians.[7] On 24 April 2023, several countries including Chad and South Sudan had reported several thousand civilians some coming by bus, walk or car in severely dangerous conditions.[8]

The vast majority of these civilians entered the neighboring country of Chad with the UN reporting most of these people came from Darfur and Khartoum, but thousands more moved to other countries. By 24 April 2023, The Guardian and the UN had reported (20,000 civilians) in Chad, (At least 10,000) in South Sudan and hundreds in Ethiopia and Egypt.[9][أ] Several people were reportedly stuck or displaced across the country due to the increase in violence and a humanitarian crisis which had affected 16 million civilians across the whole country.[10]

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Refugees before & Background

On 15 April 2023, the RSF launched a surprise attack on multiple Sudanese Army bases across the country, including in the capital Khartoum.[11] At 12:00 (Central Africa Time), RSF forces claimed to have captured Khartoum International Airport, Merowe Airport, El Obeid Airport as well as a base in Soba. Clashes between RSF and the Army erupted at the Presidential Palace and at the residence of General al-Burhan, with both sides claiming control over the two sites.

In response, the Sudanese army announced the closure of all airports in the country. and the Sudanese Air Force conducted airstrikes on RSF positions in Khartoum with artillery fire being heard in different parts of the city.[12]


Refugees before the 2023 conflict

Before the conflict, thousands of refugees had fled Sudan during old conflicts, mainly it's civil wars or the wars in Darfur leaving millions of its citizens in other countries, these involved at least 400,000 Sudanese across the Chadian border and hundreds of thousands more in neighboring countries such as South Sudan and Egypt.[13][14]

Countries

Chad

On 15 April 2023, when violence struck Sudan. Chad reported thousands of refugees coming past the now closed border between the nation and Sudan. The following days the UN reported a massive amount of people crossing mainly from Darfur amounting to a staggering 20,000 people by 19 April 2023.[15] The UN announced later on that these people, mainly women and children lacked basic needs such as food and shelter reports also suggested that almost all people were women and children.[16]

South Sudan

On 24 April 2023, South Sudan's Renk County reported thousands of refugees seeking shelter in the country, they had estimated at least 10,000 people, primarily women and children who also lacked several basic needs.[17] They reported 6,500 people on Saturday, 3,000 on Sunday and at least 500 people on Monday, they reported several South Sudanese, Sudanese, Ugandan, Kenyan, Eritrean and Somali people.[18]

Egypt

On 23 April 2023, hundreds of civilians were reported to have arrived at the Egyptian border mainly in buses, with most of them again being women and children who had fled from war-torn cities. These people were given asylum and Egypt urged civilians to go to its land border crossing at Wadi Halfa or to Port Sudan for evacuation or safety.[19][20]

See also

الهوامش

  1. ^ References from The Guardian above state this

المصادر

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  7. ^ Burke, Jason; Salih, Zeinab Mohammed; Ahmed, Kaamil (24 أبريل 2023). "Sudan: thousands flee Khartoum as civilian casualties escalate". The Guardian (in الإنجليزية البريطانية). ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 24 أبريل 2023.
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  19. ^ El-Din, Mai Shams (24 أبريل 2023). "Fear and exhaustion: A family's flight from Sudan to Egypt". Reuters (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved 25 أبريل 2023.
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