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Sudan’s raging war forces more than two million from their homes

A Sudanese refugee woman, who fled the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, carries a jerrycan of water as she walks to her makeshift shelter near the border between Sudan and Chad in Koufroun, Chad on May 10, 2023 [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]

More than two million people in Sudan have been forced from their homes due to two months of fighting between the country’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to the United Nations.

Sudan plunged into chaos on April 15 when months-long tensions between the army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF commander, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, exploded into war.

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