Up to 270,000 people could flee Sudan into neighbouring South Sudan and Chad, the United Nations said Tuesday, as a US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire took effect in the conflict-ravaged country.
Laura Lo Castro, the UN refugee agency’s representative in Chad, said some 20,000 refugees had arrived there, adding that the agency expected up to 100,000 “in the worst case scenario”. Her colleague in South Sudan, Marie-Helene Verney, said “the most likely scenario is 125,000 returns of South Sudanese refugees into South Sudan, and 45,000 refugees.” — AFP
