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STORY: UNHCR / CHAD SUDANESE REFUGEES
TRT: 07:22
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: MASALIT / ENGLISH /ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
28 FEBRUARY 2024, ADRE, CHAD
1. Various shots, new arrivals, civilians and traders crossing the border, families on horse carts,
2. Various shots, spontaneous site, relief items arranged at distribution site
24 FEBRUARY 2024, ADRE, CHAD
3. Various shots, people at food distribution,
4. Various shots, Halime, makeshift shelter
5. SOUNDBITE (Masalit) Halime Youssouf Ibrahim, refugee from Sudan:
“I am from El Geneina, during the war a shell fell on my house. All my belongings were burnt, as well as my goats and my donkey, I only got out with the clothes I had. My ears hurt from the noise of the explosion, and after that, I fled to Adre. On the way, a group of men hit me on the thighs and when I got to Adre, I stayed at the border for 7 days and I didn't eat for 3 days.”
6. Various shots, Halime washing her hands, refugees waiting to collect aid items, Refugees at site
28 FEBRUARY 2024, ADRE, CHAD
7. Various shots, UNHCR and partners delegation walking towards the border, UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner meeting refugees
28 FEBRUARY 2024, FARCHANA, CHAD
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly T. Clements, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“We've had conversations with women in particular, because most of the refugees that are coming are women and families. They don't have their male companions with them. They still talk about the basics. They talk about needing clean water. They need shelter in some places.”
24 FEBRUARY 2024, ADRE, CHAD
9. Various shots, women seated waiting for aid distribution
28 FEBRUARY 2024, FARCHANA, CHAD
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly T. Clements, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“So, one of the most worrying things that I've heard over the last couple of days is we may see families at smaller numbers coming across the border increasing very markedly. There are constraints on our ability to be able to provide assistance into Darfur from Chad and from other neighboring countries, and the conflict in the war continues. So, we're likely to see many more people come to Chad.”
25 FEBRUARY 2024, FARCHANA, CHAD
11. Various shots, Hussein doing beadwork
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nawal Attalib Hussein, Sudanese refugee:
“When the war started, we hid under our beds for two months, there was no water, no electricity or food anymore. The market was closed, and militiamen started attacking people in their homes, many men were killed. We had no choice but to leave because there were too many dead bodies around, it was best for us to go to Chad for our safety.”
13. Various shots, Hussein doing beadwork
28 FEBRUARY 2024, FARCHANA, CHAD
14. Various shots, women and children near water tanks filling jerricans, empty buckets and jerricans
27 FEBRUARY 2024, FARCHANA, CHAD
15. Aerial view, spontaneous site
28 FEBRUARY 2024, FARSHANA CAMP, ADRE, CHAD
16. Various shots, desert, camp, livestock, classroom, Farshana camp, UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner meeting children choir, shelters
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), expressed concern today (01 Mar) as more refugees will cross to Chad from Darfur in the coming months, amid a worrying lack of food and other essential humanitarian aid, a tight funding situation, and continued concerns about security across the border.
Almost a year since the start of the civil war in Sudan, neighboring Chad urgently needs more humanitarian essentials and significant development investment to stabilize the fragile socioeconomic environment, especially in the country’s east where refugees continue to arrive.
Kelly T. Clements, UNHCR’s Deputy High Commissioner, who is on a visit to the country this week, met Sudanese refugees who spoke about the difficulties they faced escaping conflict.
According to UNHCR, more than 553,000 new arrivals from Sudan had been counted by mid-February, making Chad the largest host of refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan, and also Africa’s largest host of refugees per capita.
Chad now hosts 1.1 million refugees, including Sudanese who arrived before the latest war, and refugees from CAR, Nigeria, and Cameroon.
Together with the administration, UNHCR has relocated Sudanese refugees from the border to safer areas; 250,000 people have been moved to new sites and extended older ones with most registered biometrically.
In December, the World Food Programme (WFP) suspended rations to some refugees in the country. Food distributions from Chad across the border to Darfur, where the security and protection situation is alarming, have not been made for over a month, a concern to all aid agencies.
Clements warned of fears that the region faces another scant harvest, and the needs now run well beyond the capacities of humanitarian agencies.
Programs for forcibly displaced individuals in Chad are facing a chronic funding shortfall.
