The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed alarm over tribal violence in Sudan`s conflict-ridden Darfur region, saying the conflict has killed at least 250 people and displaced more than 100,000 others. UNHCR spokesman, Boris Cheshirkov, whose remarks were published Sunday, said that about 3,500 Sudanese refugees, mostly women and children, have fled into neighboring Chad. “These refugees – the majority of them women and children – have been hosted in four very remote locations that lack basic services or public infrastructure, where they have been sheltering under trees,” Cheshirkov said in Geneva on Friday. “Due to the COVID-19 situation,...
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