More than 55,000 persons displaced in eastern Sudan

The International Red Cross organization has announced that exchanged bombardment between Eritrea and Sudan led to evacuating some 55,000 persons from their houses in east Sudan.

In a statement issued in Geneva on Monday, the International Red Cross organization said that hundreds of families have fled from the border villages since last January, adding that the eruption of fighting last month forced most of them to evacuate for the second time.

The statement went on the explain that officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross who visited Shamboub camp and other neighboring camps stressed that the 36,000 persons living in the camps have only limited amounts of food supplies.

The statement added that these displaced people suffer from several diseases, mainly children malnutrition, diarrhea, and infectious diseases. It went on those people are, in addition are vulnerable to land-mines in the border area in eastern Sudan.