Overview

• UNHCR reports over 4 million refugees have crossed into neighboring countries and about 10.5 million are displaced inside Sudan since April 2023
• Egypt hosts 1.5 million Sudanese refugees while South Sudan and Chad each shelter more than 1.1 million and 850,000 arrivals respectively
• UNHCR coordinator Dossou Patrice Ahouansou warns that Chad’s refugee caseload has tripled and relief efforts remain dangerously underfunded
• Paramilitary RSF fighters have intensified a siege of el-Fasher in Darfur, compounding hunger and driving further displacement in western Sudan
• This week’s attack on a WFP–UNICEF aid convoy in North Darfur highlights growing threats to humanitarian access and renews UN appeals for urgent funding