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STORY: UNHCR / SUDAN DISPLACED POPULATION
TRT: 01:56
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 13 NOVEMBER 2025, TAWILA, SUDAN
1. Various shots, newly arrived displaced people, UNHCR and partners on the ground
2. Various shots, SHELTERS MATERIALS DISTRIBUTION
3. Various shots, registration of newly arrived displaced people
4. Various shots, makeshift shelters / displaced people using shelter materials
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warns that a protection catastrophe in Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions is intensifying at an alarming pace as escalating violence drives thousands of families from their homes, many for the second or third time.
Families arriving in Tawila, about 50 km from El Fasher, and surrounding areas recount unimaginable horrors prior to and during their escape.
Women and girls report rape and sexual violence while fleeing El Fasher.
Parents are searching for missing children, many traumatized due to conflict and the dangerous journey to reach safety.
Unable to pay ransoms, families have lost young male relatives to arrests or forced recruitment into armed groups.
Journeys to safety are becoming longer and more perilous as the displaced try to avoid armed checkpoints along shorter routes.
Since the takeover of El Fasher, 2,000 people fleeing Darfur and Kordofan have arrived in Ad Dabbah in Northern State, some covering more than 1,000kilometres, sometimes travelling for up to 15 days.
They join some 35,000 who managed to reach Ad Dabbah during the long siege, and thousands more are thought to be on their way.
Those arriving report looting of their personal belongings, including phones, jewellery, clothing and cash.
Transport providers are also reportedly demanding exorbitant fees, turning the desperate flight to safety into another ordeal of abuse and exploitation.
Especially worrying are recent reports of people who have fled being forcibly returned to El Fasher by armed groups along displacement routes.
