UN High Commissioner for Refugees Visits to Sudan

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, arrived in Port Sudan yesterday (Thursday), accompanied by a UNHCR team. He met separately with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Muhyideen Salem, and the Humanitarian Aid Commissioner-General, Salwa Adam Benya, to discuss his visit programme, which is expected to last about a week.
Al-Muhaqiq has learned that the High Commissioner will travel today to the Northern State, and tomorrow, Saturday, he will meet with various voluntary organisations working in the “Al-Afaḍ” camp in Dongola Locality, which hosts displaced people from El Fasher. He will listen to their assessment of the humanitarian situation and the needs of the displaced before touring the camp with his accompanying team to observe the conditions firsthand.

The High Commissioner’s programme also includes a visit to Khartoum State, which he is expected to reach on Sunday to meet officials and review the state authorities’ plan for relocating refugees from several neighbouring countries to designated refugee camps located either along the border with South Sudan or along the Ethiopian and Eritrean borders.
Following his visit to Khartoum, the High Commissioner and his team are scheduled to return to Port Sudan to meet once again with UN agencies operating in Sudan and to hold discussions with several government officials regarding the outcomes of his visit and the types of interventions the United Nations intends to undertake in response to the humanitarian situation in Sudan.
The United Nations considers Sudan to be suffering from the largest displacement and refugee crisis in the world, estimating that around 13 million Sudanese from various states have been forcibly uprooted from their homes since the outbreak of the war. They have either moved to neighbouring states within Sudan, sought refuge in border countries, or migrated to other nations where their relatives reside.

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