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STORY: UNHCR / SUDAN REFUGEES EXODUS
TRT: 7:33
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 AND 29 OCTOBER 2024, ADRÉ, CHAD
28 OCTOBER 2024, ADRÉ BORDER, CHAD
1. Various shots, people crossing the Chadian border in Adré
2. Various shots, women and children who have just crossed the border
3. Wide shot, family on horse cart
4. SOUNDBITE (English)Dominique Hyde, UNHCR Director, External Relations:
“This is a border town in Chad, where what we have seen in the past month is 58,000 people cross into, fleeing Sudan, across many different border towns in Chad, there are over 80 percent that are women and girls. And they have faced some of the most horrific crimes that no human should actually face. We are incredibly concerned for their safety, but the Chadian government has been nothing but welcoming to these people who come with nothing but their clothes on their backs.”
5. Various shots, Dominique and colleagues walking and talking
6. Various shots, refugee family
7. Close up, Dominique meeting refugees
8. Med shot, Miryam Idriss Adam, Sudanese refugee seated with her family
9. Close up, Dominique talking to family
10. Close up, Miryam Idriss Adam’s face
11. Med shot, Dominique and colleagues talking to Miryam
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Miryam Idriss Adam, Sudanese refugee:
“We had nothing to eat at home, part of my house was also burnt down. Before we left, seven people were killed in front of our house. Nights have always been terrifying for us, there are so many people who have been killed.”
13. Various shots, UNHCR delegation talking with Miryam
14. SOUNDBTIE (Arabic) Miryam Idriss Adam, Sudanese refugee:
“I lost all my precious possessions. Initially, we didn’t live in El-Geneina. We were a few kilometres from El-Geneina where we kept cattle, goats, and poultry. We have lost everything.”
15. Various shots, UNHCR staff with Miryam
16. Close up, Girl looking on
17. Med shot, Dominique and Miryam’s family
29 OCTOBER 2024, ADRÉ SPONTANEOUS SITE, ADRE, CHAD
18. Wide shot, aerial view of spontaneous site in Adré hosting refugees
19. Various shots, families at registration centre
20. Close up, Elderly woman entering registration centre
21. Various shots, family getting registered
22. Various shots, women seated at registration centre
29 OCTOBER 2024, ABOUTENGUÉ SITE, ADRE, CHAD
23. Wide shot, aerial view of the Aboutengué site
24. Various shots, refugees at the site
25. Close up, woman looking on
26. Various shots, refugees at health desk
27. Med shot, health worker handing out plumpy nut
28. Various shots, refugees seated
29. Various shots, Dominique visiting a school in Aboutengué
30. Various shots, Dominique meeting students
31. Various shots, students
32. Wide shot, class session
33. Various shots, students in the schoolyard
More than 680,000 Sudanese refugees have found safety in Chad due to ongoing violence
in neighbouring Sudan. The vast majority of the new arrivals are women and children, many
reach the border in horrible conditions, having walked for long distances and arriving in a
country with limited resources.
More and more families are escaping conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, to seek safety in neighbouring Chad. Since the start of October, over 60,000 people, mostly women and children, have arrived in Eastern Chad as a result.
They cross the border with nothing. Traumatised and having walked for long distances, many are in poor health and in need of urgent assistance including food, water and shelter. Chad is facing the greatest refugee influx in its history, having received more refugees than it had in the last two decades.
More than 230,000 refugees live in extremely difficult conditions in spontaneous settlements along the border. They need to be urgently relocated away from the border to new settlements.
Dominique Hyde, the UN Refugee Agency’s Director of External Relations recently visited the country to draw attention to the plight of the refugees and their host communities. She met Sudanese refugee families who just crossed the border and heard about their difficult experiences. Sixty-year-old Miryam Idriss Adam fled her home in El Geneina, Chad with her four children and grandchildren. Her husband and some of her male relatives were killed in the conflict. Traumatised and afraid they made their way across the border to Chad. Miryam says now that the family is safe, she wants to focus on the future of her children.
Chad is home to more than 1.2 million refugees including 1 million refugees from Sudan. Dominique called on the international community to support the critical needs of the people forced toflee and help Chad’s efforts in building long-term resilience and sustainable development.
Sudan has become the world’s largest displacement crisis. Nearly 3 million people have fled to neighbouring countries since the war broke out in April 2023. More than 8 million people have been internally displaced including 200,000 refugees who have been forced from their homes to seek safety in areas of the country.
Without a political solution, the fighting will continue to create further displacement, threatening to destabilise the entire region.
Chad is one of the world’s least developed countries with a weak economy and poor infrastructure. It is struggling with a mix of conflict, climate change, and food insecurity.
UNHCR is on the ground, working with the government of Chad, humanitarian agencies and development partners to provide life-saving assistance to the refugees and their hosts. However, insufficient funding risks exhausting relief efforts and may lead to the collapse of the urgently needed response.
