Over 100,000 people have fled into Ethiopia, one of the six neighbouring countries sheltering the refugees, according to the latest UN estimates.The number of people who have gone to Chad since the war began crossed 500,000 last week, and an average of 1,500 flee into South Sudan each day, the UN statement said.As of 21 January, almost 517,000 people were recorded crossing the border from Sudan to South Sudan since April, the OCHA said.The war has killed at least 13,000 people, according to a conservative estimate by the Conflict Location and Event Data project.Sudan’s army-aligned government this month spurned an invitation to a summit organised by the IGAD East African bloc and subsequently suspended its membership in the group for engaging with Daglo.Both sides have been accused of war crimes, including the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, torture and arbitrary detention of civilians.
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