An estimated 5.8 million people were forced to flee their homes in Sudan last year after fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in April 2023, according to a new report.
Combined with displacement from previous conflicts, the total number of displaced Sudanese people crested 9 million by year-end — the largest displaced population ever reported.
Because they’re not white
“This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades.”
“This is a relatively civilized, relatively European — I have to choose those words carefully, too — city, where you wouldn’t expect that or hope that it’s going to happen
CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata