Sudan: Über 600.000 auf der Flucht

Laut Angaben der UN sind inzwischen über 600.000 Menschen im Sudan vor dem Bürgerkrieg auf der Flucht:

The number of people displaced in Sudan has doubled in a week from 340,000 to 700,000, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday.

This huge increase reported by the International Organisation for Migration comes despite efforts to bring the warring Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to the negotiating table through Saudi-brokered talks in Jeddah.

According to UN estimates an additional five million people will require humanitarian aid, bringing the total to 21 million people since the conflict began on the April 15.

More than 600 people have been killed and 5,000 injured, since the violence broke out on April 15, according to the World Health Organisation. Many of those are civilians.