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STORY: UNHCR / SUDANESE REFUGEES CHAD
TRT: 02:41
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: FRENCH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 18 APRIL 2023, KOUFOUNE, CHAD
1. Wide shot, newly arrived families seated under tree
2. Med shot, woman holding baby
3. Med shot, UNHCR staff talking to displaced woman
4. Close up, dates
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Halime Issakh Oumar, displaced from Tendelti, Sudan:
“There is no security. We fled from Sudan to Chad. We want to be safe. There is no security in Sudan. We came with nothing. We need so many things to survive. We are very tired. We came during Ramadan, with no food or water. We rely on you (UNHCR) to take us to safety.”
6. Close up, newborn twins sleeping
7. Med shot, mother seated next to babies
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Idriss Yaya Abdelkerim, displaced from Tendelti, Sudan:
“We have no water, no food, no mattresses to sleep. Some of us are sick and need medical attention. We are tired and hungry. We cannot go back, because it’s not safe. They took everything we have, shot at us, and burned houses.”
9. Med shot, UNHCR staff and newly arrived people fleeing conflict in Sudan
10. Close up, makeshift shelter
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Paul Samvura Habamungu, Head of Sub-delegation, UNHCR Abéché “The people who came from Goita have nothing, they lost everything, everything was torched on the other side, and the women told us they need food, they said - - "akil, akil, mafi," (there is no food). The issue of water is very urgent; we must do something because there is a risk of waterborne diseases like dysentery and diarrhea. As soon as we go back, we have to try to mobilize the resources we have for a response.”
12. Med shot, UN agency representatives meeting community member
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is scaling up to assist people seeking safety in countries neighbouring Sudan, where the fighting looks set to trigger further displacement both within and outside the country.
So far, the most significant cross-border movements in the region have been Sudanese fleeing to Chad, and South Sudanese refugees returning to South Sudan.
While the agency has also received reports of people starting to arrive in Egypt, exact numbers are not available at this point. Majority of those arriving in Chad are women and children, who are currently sheltering out in the open.
UNHCR and its partners have deployed emergency teams along the eastern border with Sudan to respond to urgent needs for protection and humanitarian assistance. The Government of Chad and UNHCR have initiated pre-registration activities to identify new arrivals and assess their needs. Since the beginning of the fighting, at least 20,000 refugees have fled across the border into Chad.
Many are located in villages only 5km away from Sudan, and more are expected to arrive in the coming days. UNHCR is also bolstering supplies of core relief items, including sleeping mats, soap and cooking utensils.
Refugees are sheltering under trees and lack clean water and food. Planning is underway to relocate families to an existing refugee camp further from the border, while a new location is being identified to host additional arrivals.
More than 400,000 Sudanese refugees are already hosted across 13 camps and among local communities in eastern Chad. All UNHCR operations in Sudan’s neighbouring countries impacted by this new emergency already have existing large refugee and IDP populations and are also severely underfunded.
Urgent support is needed to ensure timely assistance is provided to those fleeing hostilities
