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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, met with families who had fled fighting in Sudan and found safety in Egypt. He urged the international community to support the people fleeing Sudan as they did the people fleeing Ukraine. UNHCR

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, said that the increased suffering of the people in the country “is not a result of aid organizations not being there or aid organizations not doing anything. The suffering of the people is a result of a war.” UNIFEED / FILE

Hawaye Ibrahim, escaped to Chad to find safety for her children, after her husband was shot and killed in Sudan’s Darfur region. Fighting in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, has quickly spread to Darfur in recent weeks displacing tens of thousands of people. UNHCR

As heavy fighting continues, UN humanitarians warned on Friday that more than one million people have now been forced to flee for their lives. UNTV CH

South Sudan has seen an influx in people arriving in the country to escape conflict in Sudan. At least 46,000 South Sudanese have gone back home to the country they once fled. UNHCR and partners are providing new arrivals with food, water, blankets, mats and buckets, as well as emergency medical treatment. UNHCR

The UN seeks the highest funding appeal ever for Sudan; nearly $3 billion is needed for urgent humanitarian aid. UNTV CH

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly scaling up its emergency operations in Sudan, every day reaching thousands more people whose lives have been upended by the ongoing fighting. WFP

With the conflict in Sudan entering its second month, the United Nations and its partners today called for US$3 billion to help millions of people in the country and hundreds of thousands fleeing to neighbouring countries. UNHCR

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the UN Refugee Agency are launching a joint appeal to scale up the response and reach all those in need in Sudan and in neighbouring countries. OCHA

Humanitarians expressed deep concern for Myanmar’s most vulnerable communities after the “nightmare scenario” created by the passage of Cyclone Mocha. UNTV CH