| Civilians flee fighting in Sudan |
| Ten days into devastating fighting in Sudan, civilians are streaming into neighboring nations, including Chad, Egypt and South Sudan, raising concerns about a humanitarian crisis spreading to places already grappling with conflict, hunger and dire economic straits. Efforts to broker a cease-fire in Sudan have so far failed. |
| The huge movement of people risks overwhelming Sudan’s neighbors, some of which already host large numbers of refugees and internally displaced people. Sudan — a country of 45 million people, including about 1.1 million refugees and asylum seekers — is surrounded by seven countries racked by poverty and instability. |
| More than 400 people have been killed and 3,700 others wounded in the fighting in Sudan, according to the W.H.O. The clashes have left countless people in the country without food, water or electricity. Many hospitals in the capital, Khartoum, have closed, and several humanitarian organizations said that their warehouses and offices had been looted. |
| Arrivals: On Sudan’s southern border, nearly 3,000 people had traveled to the town of Renk in South Sudan, according to a U.N. agency. Most of those were South Sudanese returning home after having fled Khartoum in cars and on the backs of trucks, carrying whatever they could on the 280-mile journey south. |
