Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoWFP / CHAD SUDANESE REFUGEES
Download
There is no media available to download.
Share
STORY: WFP / CHAD SUDANESE REFUGEES
TRT: 05:06
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: APRIL, JUNE-JULY 2023, SUDAN, CHAD
5-8 JULY 2023, ADRÉ, CHAD
1. Various shots, Sudanese refugees arriving with their belongings to Adré, a small town just across the border from Sudan. Since the start of the conflict, more than 270,000 people have crossed the border into Chad, between refugees and returnees, of which 20,000 flooded into Adré in the last week alone
24-26 APRIL 2023, EL GENEINA, SUDAN
2. Various shots, phone video and stills filmed by people who fled the violence. Gunshots ringing out as people hide in their homes and photos of the aftermath of fighting in El Geneina, West Darfur
11 JULY 2023, ADRÉ, CHAD
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Huda Humza, Sudanese refugee:
“In the morning they attacked us, and during the attack in the roads they took everything from us, money, food clothes and they even killed relatives and friends. It was a difficult time because they did such horrible things.”
4. Various shots, 23 year-old Huda Humza prepares a meal outside their makeshift tent. Just 3 months ago she was living in El Geneina with her husband and 2 infant daughters until the conflict chased them from their home
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Huda Humza, Sudanese refugee:
“The most important thing is security and health and even more important is food.”
6. Various shots, Abuobida Abrasheed left El Geneina with his brother but they were separated on the journey and he has lost contact with him since. He arrived alone in Adré 3 weeks ago, and the rest of his family joined him shortly afterwards.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Abuobida Abrasheed, Sudanese refugee:
“On our way to Adré, we found dead bodies of people who had been killed. They came to kill people so they were in the road with motorbikes, with guns and with cars. They entered houses and they took people’s things.”
“This is the food that we have, this is the sorghum.”
“As you can see this is my house here in Adré, it’s in a camp.”
“We don’t have anything else, only the clothes you see. These are the ones that are left but the other ones rotted or were stolen.”
5-8 JULY 2023, ADRÉ, CHAD
8. Various shots, when families arrive in Adré they have to build makeshift tents for shelter from the scorching sun, wind and rain
1 JULY 2023, GOUNGOUR, CHAD
9. Various shots, WFP food distribution in the border town of Goungour in south eastern Chad. So far WFP has reached 152,000 people with food and nutrition assistance
8 JULY 2023, ADRÉ, CHAD
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Pierre Honnorat, WFP Chad country Director:
“We are in Adré where over 60,000 people have already been registered. We estimate now UNHCR and the government that some 100,000 have already crossed in Adré city. They are being relocated. Today we are here doing a food distribution where we will give them a minimum ration for one month to assist - they are mainly women and children as you can see. They really need shelters, they are coming with nothing. And look at the weather today it is sun mixed with rain, it is very terrible they are coming with nothing. And we cannot leave the government of Chad to respond alone to that response. It’s massive so we really need to help and those people really, really need our help.”
5 JULY 2023, ADRÉ, CHAD
11. Various shots, families cooking and eating
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly scaling up its response on the Chad-Sudan border to support a surge of people fleeing from Sudan. Thousands of people are crossing each day from Sudan’s Darfur region into the small border town of Adré in Chad, with many arriving injured and with harrowing stories of the violence they have escaped.
“People are running across the border, wounded, scared, with only their children in their hands and the clothes on their backs. They need safety, security, and humanitarian assistance. WFP has mobilized everything we have to the border to support these new arrivals,” said Pierre Honnorat, WFP’s Country Director in Chad.
There has been a huge surge in people fleeing from Sudan’s Darfur region to Chad with 20,000 people arriving in Adré, a small Chadian town near the border, in the last week alone. So far more than 230,000 refugees and 38,000 returnees have crossed into Chad from Sudan since the start of the conflict in April 2023.
WFP has so far delivered food and nutrition assistance to nearly 152,000 new arrivals and the host communities on the Chad-Sudan border.
Many of the people arriving in Chad from Darfur are seriously wounded amid reports that fleeing civilians being deliberately targeted with an increasing ethnic dimension to the violence. WFP has been working with health actors and the local government to improve the health infrastructure at the Chad-Sudan border. So far WFP has constructed 6 temporary units, including two being used as a makeshift hospital and for medical logistics, and four as a transit points for new refugees crossing into Chad.
WFP has been rapidly prepositioning food assistance along the border to provide in-kind food assistance (cereals, pulses, oil, and salt) as well as nutrition supplements to deliver malnutrition prevention and treatment support to the new arrivals, but resources are depleting fast.
There are high rates of malnutrition among children crossing from Darfur into Chad. Estimates suggest over 10 percent of children are malnourished. Admissions of malnourished children to health centres in Adré are quickly increasing, putting significant pressure on the limited facilities.
The rainy season has started making road access to the Chad-Sudan border increasingly challenging. Reaching some areas along the border requires crossing multiple ‘wadis’, large passageways of rainwater. WFP has deployed two SHERPS to reach Chad’s border areas. These are compact all-terrain vehicles designed can cross rivers and flooded areas and carry up to 1,200kg of food each.
As WFP mobilises all available resources to support refugees arriving in Chad, it is also essential that WFP can safely deliver food assistance to civilians that remain in West Darfur. WFP’s Sudan Operation is providing food assistance and nutrition support in East, North, South and Central Darfur, with more than 420,000 people supported so far, but the agency is currently unable to safely operate in West Darfur.
