CHAD / SUDANESE REFUGEES NEW ARRIVALS

STORY: UNHCR / CHAD SUDANESE REFUGEES AID
TRT: 04:29
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 11 MAY 2023, BOROTA, CHAD

SHOTLIST:

1. Various aerial shots, Sudanese refugees near makeshift shelters
2. Wide shot, refugees camping in temporary shelter
3. Med shot, people walking at site
4. Med shot, woman walking
5. Close up, shelter structures in site
6. Close up, various of woman looking on
7. Med shot, women walking in temporary camp site
8. Med shot, woman seated near cooking stove
9. Med shot, woman holding child
10. Close up, woman looking on
11. Med shot, sheltering structures
12. Med shot, women and children seated
13. Close up, woman seated with children
14. Close up, woman looking on
15. Med shot, crowd of people in camp
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fanné Isak Ismail, refugee from Sudan:
“Whenever we went to the market, or to fetch water from the Ouadi, armed men shoot at us.”
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Omer Arbab Ahmad, refugee from Sudan:
"When we arrived, we had problems because we came without shoes, blankets, mats or mosquito nets and with the approaching rainy season we fear that the children and the elderly, will get sick because they are exposed.”
18. Med shot, UNHCR staff talking to refugees
19. Med shot, UNHCR officer taking down pre-registration details
20. Med shot, UNHCR officer talking to refugees
21. Med shot, various of UNHCR officers taking down refugee details
22. Close up, woman’s face
23. Med shot, various of women riding on donkeys
24. Med shot, various of people collecting water from UNHCR truck
25. Med shot, various of UNHCR officer testing water
26. Close up, water being filled into jerricans
27. Med shot, refugees collecting water
28. Med shot, women carrying jerricans of water on their heads
29. Med shot, various of woman seated with children outside shelter
30. Close up, women digging ground to build shelter
31. Close up, woman looking on
32. Close up, various of woman splitting wood
33. Aerial shot, view of site

STORYLINE:
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has deployed teams and, with partners, has rushed to deliver aid to new arrivals in Chad who are escaping conflict in Sudan. Another 30,000 refugees have been monitored arriving in recent days in Chad, bringing the total number moving from Sudan to Chad in recent weeks to 60,000.

More refugees continue to pour into Chad seeking safety as they escape inter communal conflict in Sudan’s western Darfur region. In Borota, a city in Chad’s Ouaddai region families have put up makeshift shelters as they wait for help, while some have been forced to sleep out in the open.

Weeks of fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has sparked violence in parts of the country, forcing people across borders into neighbouring countries. About 30,000 refugees have been monitored arriving in recent days in Chad, bringing the total number moving from Sudan to Chad in recent weeks to 60,000.

Almost 90 percent of refugees are children and women, including many pregnant women. One-fifth of screened children between six and 59 months have been found to be acutely malnourished. Half of arrivals have family members still in Sudan wishing to join them in Chad. Some men have reportedly stayed back to guard property.

Relocations from the border are due to start at the weekend. More than 3,000 refugee families have received relief items. Additional emergency relief items have been airlifted on two flights this week from UNHCR’s warehouse in Dubai.

The humanitarian response is challenging and costly, as refugees and returnees are arriving in remote border areas where services and infrastructure are scarce or non-existent and the host population was already suffering due to climate change and food scarcity.

The coming rainy season will make logistics even harder as many roads will become impassable.