JUBA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Violent clashes that erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan have forced 516,658 individuals into South Sudan since mid-April 2023, the UN humanitarian agency said Thursday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 81 percent of the arrivals were South Sudanese and 18 percent were Sudanese.

"The rising number of new arrivals in Renk posed challenges, demanding a coordinated and sustained response from local authorities and humanitarian partners," OCHA said in its latest report released in Juba, the capital of South Sudan.

It said the humanitarian situation in South Sudan remains grim, with insecurity, sub-national violence and climatic shocks adversely affecting the food and nutrition security situation of many families, compounded by the Sudan crisis influx.

The most recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification results show that South Sudan remains one of the countries with the highest proportion of food-insecure people globally.

The results project that 7.1 million, or 56 percent of the country's population, will face acute food insecurity levels -- at the crisis level or higher during the April-July lean season.

Of these, 2.3 million in Jonglei State and 79,000 people in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State will face Emergency and Catastrophe food insecurity levels, including the areas inhabited by new arrivals from Sudan.

Deadly clashes have been going on between the SAF and the paramilitary forces since mid-April last year.

The conflict has killed more than 9,000 people, displacing over 6 million others within and outside Sudan and leaving 25 million more in need of aid, according to the UN. Enditem

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