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WFP / SUDAN AID REFUGEES
STORY: WFP / SUDAN AID REFUGEES
TRT: 03:45
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 7 – 17 MAY 2023, SUDAN / EGYPT / SOUTH SUDAN
10 MAY 2023, PORT SUDAN, SUDAN
1. Various shots, people displaced from Khartoum fighting
09 MAY 2023, PORT SUDAN, SUDAN
2. Various shots, offloading WFP humanitarian cargo at Port Sudan airport
15 MAY 2023, GEZIRA, SUDAN
3. Various shots, WFP food distribution to people displaced by conflict
08 MAY 2023, QUSTUL BORDER CROSSING, EGYPT
4. Various shots, people fleeing the fighting in Sudan arriving by bus in Egypt
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iqbal, Sudanese Mother:
“We’ve never seen anything like it. The violence and the shooting. Bullets and debris would come into our house. The ground would shake, and the house would shake. A missile fell onto our neighbour’s house. That’s what scared us and we felt we had to leave. There was no water, no electricity, and no milk to feed my children. There was nothing left for us there, so we were forced to leave.”
10 MAY 2023, QUSTUL BORDER CROSSING, EGYPT
6. Various shots, WFP distribution of emergency food rations to new arrivals
07 MAY 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
7. Various shots, camp for new arrivals
17 MAY 2023, 17 MAY 2023 JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Dunford, Regional Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“People are leaving Khartoum because there is no food, no water, no electricity, and there are very high levels of insecurity. I was in a refugee reception centre yesterday on the border where people have walked for four, five, six days from Khartoum. I met a woman Rebecca, she left with 21 children. She was sitting in this reception centre with virtually nothing, only what she had been able to carry and she didn’t really know what comes next. WFP is providing hot meals. WFP will continue to support refugees as and when they arrive but the future is very bleak for those people, it is bleak for Sudan and it is bleak for the region.”
07 MAY 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
9. Various shots, WFP providing hot meals to new arrivals from Sudan
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly scaling up its emergency operations in Sudan, every day reaching thousands more people whose lives have been upended by the ongoing fighting.
Some 843,000 people have been displaced inside Sudan since the outbreak of conflict. WFP is scaling up operations to support newly displaced and host communities, as well as pre-existing refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDPs). WFP is also helping many of the more than 250,000 people who fled Sudan into neighbouring countries.
A WFP airlift carrying 30 metric tonnes of humanitarian cargo arrived at Port Sudan airport on 9 May, the first shipment to arrive by air since conflict broke out on April,15.
So far, WFP has fed more than 300,00 people inside Sudan.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iqbal, Sudanese Mother:
“We’ve never seen anything like it. The violence and the shooting. Bullets and debris would come into our house. The ground would shake, and the house would shake. A missile fell onto our neighbour’s house. That’s what scared us and we felt we had to leave. There was no water, no electricity, and no milk to feed my children. There was nothing left for us there, so we were forced to leave.”
WFP is ramping up to assist 4.9 million vulnerable people in Sudan and thousands more who have fled to neighbouring countries.
SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Dunford, Regional Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“People are leaving Khartoum because there is no food, no water, no electricity, and there are very high levels of insecurity. I was in a refugee reception centre yesterday on the border where people have walked for four, five, six days from Khartoum. I met a woman Rebecca, she left with 21 children. She was sitting in this reception centre with virtually nothing, only what she had been able to carry and she didn’t really know what comes next. WFP is providing hot meals. WFP will continue to support refugees as and when they arrive but the future is very bleak for those people, it is bleak for Sudan and it is bleak for the region.”
In Sudan, food distributions are underway in the States of Gedaref, Kassala, White Nile, North Darfur, East Darfur and Gezira. Two weeks since the first emergency distributions started in Sudan, WFP has reached more than 300,000 people with over 6,500 metric tons of food. This is inclusive of nutrition support which is ongoing in Red Sea State.
In Chad WFP’s emergency food and nutrition assistance has so far reached 20,000 people in Chad with over 482 metric tons of food mobilised immediately from N’Djamena to Farchana and Gozamir near the Sudan – Chad border.
Since the start of clashes in Sudan, more than 60,000 new Sudanese refugees have crossed into Chad, in addition to 15,000 Chadian returnees from Sudan - according to the Government of Chad, UNHCR, and IOM. These new arrivals add to the more than 400,000 Sudanese refugees already sheltering in Eastern Chad after fleeing from previous conflicts.
In Egypt WFP has launched an emergency cash assistance programme in Egypt to support the most vulnerable families arriving with nothing after a long and perilous journey from Sudan.
In South Sudan WFP is providing hot meals for new arrivals as well as nutrition screening for children and pregnant or breastfeeding women and children.
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