UNHCR / SOUTH SUDAN SUDANESE REFUGEES

Limiya Daud is among Sudanese refugees who have been relocated to existing camps in South Sudan, as more people flee conflict in neighboring Sudan. The 30-year-old and her children now have better access to services. Limiya has also started a small business to help support the family. UNHCR

• Video Length: 00:07:23
• Production Date: 22 August 2024
• Asset Language: English; Arabic
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGUEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN; SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 3247576
• Parent Id: 3247576
• Alternate Title: unifeed240822b

Description

STORY: UNHCR / SOUTH SUDAN SUDANESE REFUGEES
TRT: 7:23
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 APRIL 2024, MABAN REFUGEE CAMP, RENK, SOUTH SUDAN / FILE

Shotlist

15 APRIL 2024, MABAN REFUGEE CAMP, SOUTH SUDAN

1. Various shots, Sudanese Refugee, Limiya Daud and her children
2. Close up, lentils cooking in pot
3. Med shot, Limiya serving meal
4. Wide shot, Limiya’s family
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Limiya Daud, Sudanese Refugee:
“We didn’t want to leave Sudan. It wasn’t until a bomb fell on our neighbour’s house that we
decided to leave. We thought it would pass, like protests that used to be help on Thursdays, in
Khartoum. A short while later we started hearing gunfire, heavy gunfire. After the neighbour’s house
was hit and after seeing the news on TV. We had to leave. We fled Khartoum at 8pm and headed
towards Kosti. We couldn’t find any transportation. There were a lot of armed men and guns as we
left Khartoum for Kosti. There were a lot of injured people lying on the ground.”
6. Various shots, Limiya and her family sharing meal
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Limiya Daud, Sudanese Refugee:
“It took a whole day. The Sun was really hot. There was a lot of hardship. There was no water. We
saw people dead on the ground, and the children would scream when they saw them and say let’s go back home.”
8. Various shots, Limiya with her children
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Limiya Daud, Sudanese Refugee:
“My brother’s wife was killed. I also lost the aunt who raised me. I have lost contact with many of my relatives, there is no way to communicated with them. It’s just me and my children.”

JUNE 2024 - RENK - UPPER NILE, SOUTH SUDAN

10. Various shots, truck transporting new arrivals from Joda border to Renk transit centre
11. Various shots, refugees sheltering at Renk transit centre
12. Various shots, women and children collecting water
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Limiya Daud, Sudanese Refugee:
“The transit centre was very congested. We faced different challenges. My children got sick there
There were a lot of people from different communities, South Sudanese, Sudanese, a lot of people.
The situation was very difficult.”
14. Various shots, people walking in transit centre

15 APRIL 2024, MABAN REFUGEE CAMP, SOUTH SUDAN

15. Various shots, Limiya carrying poles to her compound
16. Various shots, Limiya talking to worker building a structure in her compound
17. Various shots, worker securing pole in the ground
18. Close up, Limiya helping secure pole
19 SOUNDBITE (English) Asunta Atong Agok Protection Associate, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR):
“UNHCR, through our implementing partners, has constructed a number of temporary shelters
where refugees are now resettled in and most of the refugees who have the capacity, in the
meantime, you will find some of them are modifying shelters to the standard that they feel is okay
with them. Within the camp settlement. We have different services that are being provided by
different humanitarian agencies on different, thematic areas. For example, we have health services
that are available. We also have, education.”
20. Various shots, people near housing structures in camp
21. Various shots, women and children at health centre
22. Various shots, students in class
23. Wide shot, Limiya’s home
24. Close up, items on sale at Limiya’s stall
25. Various shots, customer buying items
26 SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Limiya Daud, Sudanese refugee:
“I buy and sell onions. I sell sugar and dried okra. I sell them to provide for my children.”
27. Various shots, Market scenes
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Limiya Daud, Sudanese refugee:
“I cannot go back to Sudan because I cannot expose my children to the problems and things that
they have already seen, which was not easy. Things are difficult but i wish my children can get a
good education, good healthcare and security here. We are not comfortable but at least we don’t
hear the sound of gunshots, and there is no killing.”
29. Various shots, Limiya and worker marking construction areas
30. Various shots, Limiya mixing straw and clay for plastering

Storyline

Limiya Daud is among Sudanese refugees who have been relocated to existing camps in South
Sudan, as more people flee conflict in neighboring Sudan. The 30-year-old and her children now
have better access to services. Limiya has also started a small business to help support the family.

Limiya is still struggling to recover from the grief and trauma she suffered when war broke out in
Sudan’s Capital, Khartoum in April 2023. Limiya lost both her sister-in-law and an aunt, who raised
her.

As fighting intensified, the 30-year-old hurriedly left the city with her six children in tow, to find safety in Kosti, in the country’s White Nile State.
Along the way they saw scenes of destruction and many dead bodies on the ground. After a three-day journey, Limiya crossed to the South Sudanese border town of Renk, where about 1,000 people escaping the conflict arrive every day.

The constant flow of men, women and children seeking safety is overwhelming Renk’s two transit centres which were designed to hold 4,000 people, but now support more than 9,000. Many South Sudanese returnees continue the long journey back to their communities.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is working with the government of South Sudan and partners, to transport refugees to existing camps in the country. In May last year, Limiya was relocated to Maban County, about 300 kilometers to the south-east.

Here refugees have access to services like healthcare, schools, psychosocial support, and food rations among other services. Families are also allocated a plot of land with improved houses.

Limiya has integrated into the community, even starting a small business selling onions and other items to supplement the humanitarian aid she receives. Her children have also enrolled in school.

Ten million people have been forcibly displaced since Sudan’s newest conflict began. Of these, around two million have sought refuge in neighboring countries including South Sudan, which is already reeling from the impacts of climate change, food insecurity and intercommunal conflict. South Sudan previously hosted over 457,000 refugees and asylum seekers from various countries and more than 2.2 million internally displaced people.