Sudan refugees stranded as IOM suspends transport

Displaced Sudanese sit at a shelter after they were evacuated by the Sudanese army to a safer area in Omdurman, on May 13, 2025, amid the ongoing war in Sudan. [AFP]

The United Nations migration agency warned Friday that critical funding shortfalls have forced it to "temporarily suspend" a vital transport link in South Sudan, stranding people fleeing the war in neighbouring Sudan.

South Sudan has been plagued by conflict and poverty since its independence in 2011, heightened in recent months by the roiling war in Sudan on its porous northern border.