Sudan’s Rival Factions Wage War While World Ignores Civilian Plight, UN Says
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FILE - A boy sits atop a hill overlooking a refugee camp near the Chad-Sudan border on Nov. 9, 2023. A U.N. report released March 1, 2024, says the ongoing conflict in Sudan has resulted in the displacement of 8.1 million people. FILE - A Sudanese woman who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region walks beside carts carrying her family belongings upon crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad, on Aug. 2, 2023.
A United Nations report finds nearly 11 months of conflict in Sudan has resulted in mass killings, displacement, destruction of property and rampant human rights violations that have caused immeasurable harm and distress to millions of people, whose plight has been all but forgotten by the rest of the world.
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