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About 10,000 refugees have entered South Sudan from Sudan in recent days fleeing fighting between the army and paramilitary forces, officials in South Sudan’s Renk county said on Monday.
A drone view shows smoke rising over the light industrial zone north of Khartoum in Bahri, Sudan. (Reuters)
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About 6,500 people crossed the border on Saturday, another 3,000 on Sunday and more arrived on Monday, county governor Kak Padiet told Reuters.
Renk’s army commander, Dau Aturjong, said three-quarters of the arrivals were South Sudanese, with the remainder being Sudanese, Eritrean, Kenyan, Ugandan and Somali.
Sudan hosts 800,000 South Sudanese refugees fleeing the long-running conflict. South Sudan gained independence from its northern neighbor in 2011.
“It’s local authorities and locals helping newcomers,” Atulong told Reuters. “So far, humanitarian organizations have not been involved.”
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South Sudan also has more than 2 million people displaced, and the civil war between 2013 and 2018 killed some 400,000 people.
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