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cess. Many observers thought that Sudan was taking its first steps to democracy after the 2021 coup, but the military rivalry has made that impossible for now.
The UN refugee agency has stated that tens of thousands of refugees from South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea living in the country have fled or escaped the fighting between the SAF and the RSF in the Khartoum area. This refugee crisis has joined a multitude of others around the world, like the Ukrainian refugee crisis. The new refugees have been able to find shelter in existing refugee camps further east and south of South Sudan.
The United States has also been plagued with the task of evacuating all the U.S. citizens from the dangerous zone. Armed drones have escorted hundreds of Americans as they escaped from the remains left in a war torn Sudan amid the fighting between the military and paramilitary.The drones flew above a convoy of buses as they made the 500-mile journey from the Sudan’s capital, Khartoum— the heart of the conflict—to Port Sudan on the east coast. Several hundred Americans were on about 25 buses, and were then led onto a Navy ship, ultimately escaping safely.
Meanwhile, even a fragile truce between the two generals has not stopped the fighting. The conflict and the fighting continues to rage on.