The rate of internal displacement in Sudan has almost doubled since conflict broke out in April, the UN's migration agency said on Tuesday, with millions now internally displaced.
About 7.1 million people are now displaced inside Sudan, the International Organisation for Migration said, with 3.8 million newly displaced as a result of months of fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group.
Most internally displaced people are now living in the River Nile, East Darfur, Northern, South Darfur, Sennar and White Nile states, it said.
Khartoum continues to be rocked by violence, with fighting resuming at the weekend. Scores of women and children were killed in an army air strike on the capital on Sunday.
On Monday, RSF commander Gen Mohamed Dagalo claimed he was fighting to “return democracy” to Sudan, labelling army chief Abdel Fattah Al Burhan a criminal.
More than one million have fled the country due to the conflict, primarily to Chad, South Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia.
The agency said it expects 1.8 million people to flee Sudan by the end of this year and appealed for $1 billion aid amid reports of rising disease and death rates.
“The people of Sudan deserve peace. Any further escalation of violence would further devastate the country and the region,” said Federico Soda, director of IOM's Department of Operations and Emergencies.
At least 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict, according to estimates from war-monitoring groups.
The UN has said humanitarian needs in the war-torn country are at an “all-time high”, with half of the population requiring aid. The price of basic goods has skyrocketed and a large number of medical facilities are out of service.
The IOM said it was “committed” to continuing its work in Sudan but admitted the fighting is hindering its efforts to help the most vulnerable.
“Intensified hostilities, fighting, and other obstacles faced by aid organisations continue to make access to people in need extremely challenging in many areas of the country,” said the agency.
More than half of Khartoum's prewar population has fled the capital since fighting began.
Most of the city is now under the control of the RSF, and local residents face regular power and water cuts as well as army air strikes.
UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
Profile
Company: Justmop.com
Date started: December 2015
Founders: Kerem Kuyucu and Cagatay Ozcan
Sector: Technology and home services
Based: Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai
Size: 55 employees and 100,000 cleaning requests a month
Funding: The company’s investors include Collective Spark, Faith Capital Holding, Oak Capital, VentureFriends, and 500 Startups.
Salah in numbers
€39 million: Liverpool agreed a fee, including add-ons, in the region of €39m (nearly Dh176m) to sign Salah from Roma last year. The exchange rate at the time meant that cost the Reds £34.3m - a bargain given his performances since.
13: The 25-year-old player was not a complete stranger to the Premier League when he arrived at Liverpool this summer. However, during his previous stint at Chelsea, he made just 13 Premier League appearances, seven of which were off the bench, and scored only twice.
57: It was in the 57th minute of his Liverpool bow when Salah opened his account for the Reds in the 3-3 draw with Watford back in August. The Egyptian prodded the ball over the line from close range after latching onto Roberto Firmino's attempted lob.
7: Salah's best scoring streak of the season occurred between an FA Cup tie against West Brom on January 27 and a Premier League win over Newcastle on March 3. He scored for seven games running in all competitions and struck twice against Tottenham.
3: This season Salah became the first player in Premier League history to win the player of the month award three times during a term. He was voted as the division's best player in November, February and March.
40: Salah joined Roger Hunt and Ian Rush as the only players in Liverpool's history to have scored 40 times in a single season when he headed home against Bournemouth at Anfield earlier this month.
30: The goal against Bournemouth ensured the Egyptian achieved another milestone in becoming the first African player to score 30 times across one Premier League campaign.
8: As well as his fine form in England, Salah has also scored eight times in the tournament phase of this season's Champions League. Only Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, with 15 to his credit, has found the net more often in the group stages and knockout rounds of Europe's premier club competition.
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ETFs explained
Exhchange traded funds are bought and sold like shares, but operate as index-tracking funds, passively following their chosen indices, such as the S&P 500, FTSE 100 and the FTSE All World, plus a vast range of smaller exchanges and commodities, such as gold, silver, copper sugar, coffee and oil.
ETFs have zero upfront fees and annual charges as low as 0.07 per cent a year, which means you get to keep more of your returns, as actively managed funds can charge as much as 1.5 per cent a year.
There are thousands to choose from, with the five biggest providers BlackRock’s iShares range, Vanguard, State Street Global Advisors SPDR ETFs, Deutsche Bank AWM X-trackers and Invesco PowerShares.
Key findings
- Over a period of seven years, a team of scientists analysed dietary data from 50,000 North American adults.
- Eating one or two meals a day was associated with a relative decrease in BMI, compared with three meals. Snacks count as a meal. Likewise, participants who ate more than three meals a day experienced an increase in BMI: the more meals a day, the greater the increase.
- People who ate breakfast experienced a relative decrease in their BMI compared with “breakfast-skippers”.
- Those who turned the eating day on its head to make breakfast the biggest meal of the day, did even better.
- But scrapping dinner altogether gave the best results. The study found that the BMI of subjects who had a long overnight fast (of 18 hours or more) decreased when compared even with those who had a medium overnight fast, of between 12 and 17 hours.
Red Joan
Director: Trevor Nunn
Starring: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Tereza Srbova
Rating: 3/5 stars
