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STORY: IOM / SUDAN DISPLACED
TRT: 01.49
SOURCE: IOM
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT IOM ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 01 APRIL 2024, ALHOURY IDP GATHERING SITE, GEDAREF, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Sara walking into her home
2. Med shot, Sara and her baby
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sara, Sudanese Displaced Person:
“We were living in East Khartoum. We never put the idea in our mind to leave, but when it started to get more challenging and the bombings became too much, and even a bomb fell on our house, this is what made us decide to finally leave. At the same time, I was 9 months pregnant in the final days of my pregnancy. Also, our next-door neighbor’ was killed by a bomb. This scared us and forced us to leave.”
4. Med shot, Sara in her kitchen
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sara, Sudanese Displaced Person:
“Thank God I arrived here and gave birth the next day, I was suffering. After I delivered, I am still suffering. We didn’t have anything, we had to borrow money to even come here and now we still can’t pay it back.”
6. Zoom in, Sara and her baby
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sara, Sudanese Displaced Person:
“I just want a safe place. Where I can live comfortably.”
8. Med shot, Sara and her children
Sara was 9 months pregnant when a bomb struck her home, forcing her to flee and deliver her baby alone. Countless families in Sudan are torn apart by the ongoing conflict.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sara, Sudanese Displaced Person:
“We were living in East Khartoum. We never put the idea in our mind to leave, but when it started to get more challenging and the bombings became too much, and even a bomb fell on our house, this is what made us decide to finally leave. At the same time, I was 9 months pregnant in the final days of my pregnancy. Also, our next-door neighbor’ was killed by a bomb. This scared us and forced us to leave.”
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has also provided Sara with hygiene kits and emergency shelter.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sara, Sudanese Displaced Person:
“Thank God I arrived here and gave birth the next day, I was suffering. After I delivered, I am still suffering. We didn’t have anything, we had to borrow money to even come here and now we still can’t pay it back.”
“I just want a safe place. Where I can live comfortably.”
Sara and her children are sheltered at Alhoury IDP gathering site in Gedaref, which hosts over 300 families.
IOM estimates that the conflict has displaced nearly 58,000 people from El Fasher in north Darfur since April 1st. Many more people, including children and elderly people, are unable or are being prevented from moving to safer areas.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians in El Fasher are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. Many parts of the city have been left without electricity or water. A growing proportion of the population has limited access to necessities and essential services, including food and health care.
Reportedly in the past day, medical facilities, displacement camps and critical civilian infrastructure have been impacted by the hostilities.
