Over 200,000 Sudanese have fled the war in their country and sought refuge in Libya, where they are exposed to human rights violations. If they do not receive help, they could travel on to Europe, says the United Nations. The UN is ringing alarm bells on the human toll of the ongoing war in Sudan. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says that ten million people have been displaced since the start of the war in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Around two million of them have fled to neighbouring countries. Nowhere is their situation more critical than in Libya, where many hope to travel on to Europe or Tunisia. In January 2025, the UNHCR estimated the number of Sudanese refugees in Libya to be 210,000. They often arrive with no identity documents, which is illegal under Libyan law. “That's why Sudanese refugees are usually arrested immediately and taken to detention centres or police stations, where we as lawyers have to ...
