The current conflict adds to an already precarious humanitarian situation for many people in Sudan. Due to the conflict, many people within the country are becoming newly internally displaced, others are crossing the border to neighbouring countries, including Sudanese refugees, returnees or third-country-nationals.
The current conflict adds to an already precarious humanitarian situation for many people in Sudan. It is predicted that 24.8 million people in Sudan - over half of the population[1] - are currently in need of humanitarian assistance (Sudan HNO and HRP, 2023)[2].
The intensity of the humanitarian needs has also increased. In Sudan, 17 localities see now a "catastrophic" level of needs, compared to 14 localities in May 2023 (HNRP, 2024). Half of these are in the Darfur region (ibid).
Sudan faces currently the world's largest internal displacement crisis. Due to clashes in multiple cities and localities across Sudan, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that as of 18 January, more than 6.6 million persons have been newly internally displaced within Sudan since 15 April (IOM, 2024). Prior to that, Sudan had already hosted an estimated 3.8 million internally displaced persons (IOM, 2023).
Displacement Tracking Matrix Sudan | WEEKLY DISPLACEMENT SNAPSHOT (25)
Source: IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix, 2024.
Additionally, the current conflict has triffered more than 2 million mixed cross-border movements of people crossing from Sudan to neighbouring countries, including Sudanese refugees, third country nationals and returnees since 15 April (as of 29 March 2024) (IOM, UNHCR and Governments, 2024).
[1] An estimated 45.7 million people live in Sudan, of 1 July 2021. Of these, approximately 47 per cent were children (below 18 years of age) and 50 per cent were female (of all ages) (GMDAC analysis of UN DESA, 2022).
[2] Among these are also foreign nationals, both refugees and migrants with other legal status, whose needs may differ from those of Sudanese nationals (Sudan Revised HRP, 2023).