More than 60,000 people have fled a town in Sudan’s main oil region since it was attacked by insurgents in April, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Government forces retook the town of Abu Kershola two weeks ago from fighters belonging to the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), a rebel alliance seeking to topple President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
Abu Kershola lies in the northeastern tip of the oil-producing South Kordofan state.
The fighting in Abu Kershola has displaced 63,000 people, the U.N. said in its report. Some 8,000 people have fled to Khartoum, more than 600 km (370 miles) away, while 44,000 were seeking shelter in the neighboring state of North Kordofan.