The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Sudan Commission for Refugees (COR) have appealed for U.S.$556 million to assist more than 900,000 refugees in the country.

According to the UNHCR, the appeal is to help meet the basic needs, to protect and to realise the rights of the 1.1 million refugees living in Sudan.

Development Diaries reports that the 2023 response plan for the country aims to deliver life-saving assistance while also engaging essential linkages between humanitarian and development actors.

Sudan is the second largest asylum country in Africa, hosting about 1.1 million refugees and asylum-seekers from South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Syria, and Yemen.

South Sudanese refugees continue to make up the largest group of refugees in the country as they continue to flee armed conflict that has pushed the east African country into a humanitarian crisis.

‘The refugee response plan, co-developed with all partners including the Sudan Commission for Refugees (COR), places critical protection and life-saving assistance for refugee communities in Sudan at the core of the response, targeting both newly arrived refugees and those living in protracted situations’, said UNHCR Representative in Sudan, Axel Bisschop.

‘In parallel, it provides a framework to promote resilience and durable solutions for these displaced communities.

‘With recognition of the global humanitarian environment and multiple crises we face, we encourage the international community to support the newly launched refugee response plan for Sudan.

‘Providing strategic guidance, it will allow for concerted action to support refugees and other displaced communities, as well as host communities across the country’.

UNHCR and 41 international and national partners in Sudan launched the Sudan Country Refugee Response Plan (CRP) to provide life-saving support to refugees in the country.

Source: UNHCR

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