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Sudan's rival factions wage war while world ignores civilian plight, UN says

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A U.N. report released March 1, 2024, says the ongoing conflict in Sudan has resulted in the displacement of 8.1 million people. [Reuters]

A United Nations report finds nearly 11 months of conflict in Sudan has resulted in mass killings, displacement, destruction of property and rampant human rights violations that have caused immeasurable harm and distress to millions of people, whose plight has been all but forgotten by the rest of the world.

"The crisis in Sudan is a tragedy that appears to have slipped into the fog of global amnesia," Volker Turk, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said during an interactive dialogue on the situation in Sudan at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday.

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