More than 1.3 million return to homes in Sudan: UN

Geneva: More than 1.3 million people who fled the fighting in Sudan have headed home, the United Nations said Friday, pleading for greater internation...

Geneva: More than 1.3 million people who fled the fighting in Sudan have headed home, the United Nations said Friday, pleading for greater international aid to help returnees rebuild shattered lives.

Over a million internally displaced people (IDPs) have returned to their homes in recent months, UN agencies said.

A further 320,000 refugees have crossed back into Sudan this year, mainly from neighbouring Egypt and South Sudan.

While fighting has subsided in the "pockets of relative safety" to where people are beginning to return, the situation remains highly precarious, the UN said.

Since April 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by a power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, commander over the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The fighting has killed tens of thousands.