UN: Nearly 10,000 fleeing Sudan war to South Sudan a day

A policeman walks near tires set aflame by Sudanese protesters marking the first anniversary of a raid on an anti-government sit-in, in the Riyadh district in the east of Khartoum on June 3, 2020. [AFP]

Almost 10,000 people a day are fleeing Sudan's brutal civil war across the border to South Sudan, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, with daily arrivals having tripled in recent weeks.

Since April 2023 fighting between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions more, triggering what the UN calls one of the world's worst displacement crises.