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Referred to as the largest as well as the fastest growing displacement crisis globally, the conflict that began in mid-April 2023 in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), had by December 2024, forcibly displaced more than 12.3 million people—this is more than the entire population of Switzerland, New York City or London. More than 3 million people have fled to the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, South Sudan and Uganda including refugees, asylum-seekers and returnees, with 8.4 million newly internally displaced within Sudan. One in four Sudanese people are now forcibly displaced. One in sixteen refugees globally are from Sudan. These are staggering statistics.