TUESDAY August 13, 2024: 'BREAKING POINT' War-Ravaged Sudan Faces Famine by ZUMA partner agency SOPA photo-journalist Sally Hayden: War-wrecked Sudan's humanitarian crisis is at ''a catastrophic breaking point'' amid fighting and devastating flooding, the U.N. migration agency stated this week. The African nation plunged into chaos in April last year when tensions between the military and paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, turned into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, before spreading across the country. The conflict has killed thousands of people and pushed many into starvation. Sudan's war has created the world's largest displacement crisis with over 10.7 million people have been forced to flee their homes. Over 2 million of those fled to neighboring countries. Welcome to 'BREAKING POINT' War-Ravaged Sudan Faces Famine.
© zReportage.com Story of the Week #950: TUESDAY August 13, 2024: 'BREAKING POINT' War-Ravaged Sudan Faces Famine by ZUMA partner agency SOPA photo-journalist Sally Hayden: War-wrecked Sudan's humanitarian crisis is at ''a catastrophic breaking point'' amid fighting and devastating flooding, the U.N. migration agency stated this week. The African nation plunged into chaos in April last year when tensions between the military and paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, turned into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, before spreading across the country. The conflict has killed thousands of people and pushed many into starvation. Sudan's war has created the world's largest displacement crisis with over 10.7 million people have been forced to flee their homes. Over 2 million of those fled to neighboring countries. Welcome to 'BREAKING POINT' War-Ravaged Sudan Faces Famine.

Aerial view of homes in Juba, South Sudan's capital city, with a population of just half a million people. The growth of the town accelerated following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005, which made Juba the capital of the Autonomous Government of Southern Sudan. Juba became the capital of South Sudan in 2011 after its independence.
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People fleeing the Sudanese war disembark a truck which has brought them to Renk from the Joda border crossing in South Sudan. The civil war between two rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), began in April 2023. By early 2024, its estimated 15,000 people had been killed and 33,000 injured. As of July 2024, over 7.7 million were internally displaced.
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A child refugee is loaded into a truck taking people fleeing Sudan's war from Joda, on the Sudanese border, to Renk in South Sudan, where they will stay in a transit camp before they are transported further into the country. Around 1,000 South Sudanese returnees and Sudanese refugees are crossing the border from Sudan to South Sudan every day. Sudan's civil war, which began in April 2023, has resulted in the world's largest displacement crisis.
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Refugees including women and children fleeing the Sudanese war disembark a truck which has brought them to Renk from the Joda border crossing in South Sudan. Most will stay in the transit centre there for a week or two before moving on to other parts of the country.
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Muslim men pray following iftar, as Ramadan is celebrated by Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees, who have fled the Sudanese war, in a transit centre in South Sudan.
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Muslim men pray following iftar, as Ramadan is celebrated by Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees, who have fled the Sudanese war, in a transit centre in Renk, South Sudan.
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Around 1,000 South Sudanese returnees and Sudanese refugees are crossing the border from Sudan to South Sudan every day. Sudan's civil war has resulted in the world's largest displacement crisis.
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Refugees wait to be loaded into trucks to take them from Joda, on the Sudanese border, to Renk in South Sudan, where they will stay in a transit camp before they are transported further into the country.
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Boats transfer South Sudanese returnees, who fled both South Sudan's war and the more recent war in Sudan, back to their original homes or to be reunited with family members in various parts of the country.
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A woman in a wheelchair is lifted onto a boat which will transfer South Sudanese returnees, who fled both South Sudan's war and the more recent war in Sudan, back to their original homes or to be reunited with family members in various parts of the country. The journey from Renk to Malakal will take around two days.
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Boats transfer South Sudanese returnees, who fled both South Sudan's war and the more recent war in Sudan, back to their original homes or to be reunited with family members in various parts of the country.
© Sally Hayden/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire

Refugees are loaded into truck to take them from Joda, on the Sudanese border, to Renk in South Sudan, where they will stay in a transit camp before they are transported further into the country away from fighting and the ongoing civil war.
© Sally Hayden/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire