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About 1,430 people were displaced from five villages in Sudan's North Darfur state in a single day because of worsening insecurity, the U.N. migration agency said Thursday.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement that around 1,430 people fled the villages of Shatmarta, Sangari, Goz Laban, Dal Barida and Khair Wajid in the Umbro locality on Tuesday.
The agency said the displacement was caused by escalating insecurity in the area.
Some of those displaced moved to other areas within Umbro, while others crossed the border into neighboring Chad, according to the IOM.
The organization said the security situation in the area "remains tense and volatile" and that it continues to closely monitor developments.
The latest displacement came three days after the IOM reported that about 2,260 people had fled two villages in Umbro due to insecurity.
According to the independent Emergency Lawyers group, villages in Umbro have been under attack for about a month by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The group said the attacks included raids on markets, the burning of villages and widespread looting.
The RSF controls four of Darfur's five states and much of the fifth, while the Sudanese army continues to hold parts of North Darfur.
The army also controls most of Sudan's other 18 states, including the capital, Khartoum.
Darfur accounts for roughly one-fifth of Sudan's territory, which spans more than 1.8 million square kilometers, or 695,000 square miles.
Most of Sudan's estimated 50 million people live in areas controlled by the army.
Sudan has been engulfed in a violent conflict since April 2023, when fighting erupted between the army and the RSF over plans to integrate the paramilitary force into the military.
The war has triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, killing tens of thousands of people and displacing nearly 13 million.
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