UNHCR / SUDAN CRISIS MOTHER STORY

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Hawaye Ibrahim, escaped to Chad to find safety for her children, after her husband was shot and killed in Sudan’s Darfur region. Fighting in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, has quickly spread to Darfur in recent weeks displacing tens of thousands of people. UNHCR

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STORY: UNHCR / SUDAN CRISIS MOTHER STORY
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DATELINE: 01, 02, 15 MAY 2023, MIDJIGUILTA / GAGA / KOUFROUNE, CHAD

SHOTLIST:

01 MAY 2023, KOUFROUNE, CHAD

1. Various shots, Hawaye Ibrahim, Sudanese refugee and her children
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hawaye Ibrahim, Sudanese Refugee:
"It is fighting that brought me here. The militia entered my house, they killed my husband and wounded my son. I was also tortured, so I fled and came to Chad.”
3. Med shot, Hawaye and her son, Manane
4. Close up, Hawaye showing scar on her son Manane’s stomach
5. Tilt up, from Hawaye’s hands to face
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hawaye Ibrahim, Sudanese Refugee:
"They hit me with a stick and until now my left ear doesn't work so I can't hear well.”
7. Close up, Manane looking on
8. Various shots, Hawaye and her children outside housing structure
9. Close up, Manane looking on
10. Various shots, Hawaye and Manane
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hawaye Ibrahim, Sudanese Refugee:
"I fled at 11 pm with my injured child, I carried him on my back. We didn't even have a donkey for transport. I had to leave my other children behind. Other people brought them here.”
12. Med shot, Hawaye and her children
13. Various shots, women waiting for distribution of Core Relief Items (CRIs)
14. Wide shot, women, children and their animals

02 MAY 2023 MIDJIGUILTA, CHAD

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Brice Degla, Senior Emergency Coordinator, Chad, UNHCR:
“They have fled not only because of the war in Khartoum but also because of the intercommunity
crisis within their community in Tendalti.”

01 MAY 2023, KOUFROUNE, CHAD

16. Wide shot, women walking
17. Various shots, family traveling on donkey
18. Various shots, man moving luggage on horse cart

02 MAY 2023 MIDJIGUILTA, CHAD

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Brice Degla, Senior Emergency Coordinator, Chad, UNHCR:
“The fear of being attacked because of the war forced them to flee and then all of them came here.”

01 MAY 2023, KOUFROUNE, CHAD

20. Med shot, women looking on
21. Close up, girls’ faces
22. Various shots, families at site
23. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hawaye Ibrahim, Sudanese Refugee:
"I need food, I need clothes and I also need shelter and soap and things to settle down.”
24. Various shots, Hawaye lighting fire
25. Close up, elderly woman looking on
26. Various shots, women seated waiting to receive CRIs
27. Wide shot, distribution of CRIs

15 MAY 2023, GOUNGOUR, CHAD

28. Med shot, crowd waving goodbye to refugees in truck being relocated
29. Wide shot, convoy

02 MAY 2023 MIDJIGUILTA, CHAD

30. SOUNDBITE (English) Brice Degla, Senior Emergency Coordinator, Chad, UNHCR:
“UNHCR is identifying sites far from here, at least 50 km from here, to relocate people from the
border so that the risk of insecurity at least is resolved but also provide assistance to them.”

15 MAY 2023, GOUNGOUR, CHAD

31. Tilt up, UNHCR staff taking down notes
32. Med shot, UNHCR Staff holding up card/ addressing refugees

15 MAY 2023, GAGA, CHAD

33. Various shots, family outside newly allocated house
34. Wide shot, aerial view of new houses

01 MAY 2023, KOUFROUNE, CHAD

35. Med shot, woman holding card
36. Med shot, people walking
37. Close up, feet moving
38. Med shot, Manane looking on

STORYLINE:

Hawaye Ibrahim, escaped to Chad to find safety for her children, after her husband was shot and killed in Sudan’s Darfur region. Fighting in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, has quickly spread to Darfur in recent weeks displacing tens of thousands of people.

Haweya Ibrahim Abacar and her family were sleeping at their home in Tendalti in Sudan’s western Darfur region when armed men entered the house. Her husband was shot and her son, Manane hit by a stray bullet. Her husband later died from his wounds.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hawaye Ibrahim, Sudanese Refugee:
"It is fighting that brought me here. The militia entered my house, they killed my husband and wounded my son. I was also tortured, so I fled and came to Chad.”

The mother of four fled on foot towards the border with Chad, carrying her injured son on her back. She says the militia hit her with a stick and injured her left ear, after she refused to denounce her husband and she can no longer hear well.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hawaye Ibrahim, Sudanese Refugee:
"They hit me with a stick and until now my left ear doesn't work so I can't hear well.”

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hawaye Ibrahim, Sudanese Refugee:
"I fled at 11 pm with my injured child, I carried him on my back. We didn't even have a donkey for transport. I had to leave my other children behind. Other people brought them here.”

Hawaye and her children are among over 90,000 Sudanese refugees who have fled to neighbouring Chad since fighting between rival military factions started in Khartoum last month and spread in parts of the country.

SOUNDBITE (English) Brice Degla, Senior Emergency Coordinator, Chad, UNHCR:
“They have fled not only because of the war in Khartoum but also because of the intercommunity
crisis within their community in Tendalti.”

Western Darfur has been particularly affected by the conflict which has re-ignited existing ethnic and intercommunal tensions. Heavy civilian casualties have been reported there as well as looting and
burning of public and humanitarian facilities, including camps for internally displaced people.

SOUNDBITE (English) Brice Degla, Senior Emergency Coordinator, Chad, UNHCR:
“The fear of being attacked because of the war forced them to flee and then all of them came here.”

Most new arrivals are women and children forced to stay out in the open or sleep in makeshift structures

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hawaye Ibrahim, Sudanese Refugee:
"I need food, I need clothes and I also need shelter and soap and things to settle down.”

Even before the current influx, Chad was hosting over 1 million forcibly displaced people, including 400,000 Sudanese refugees in the east.

As more refugees fleeing the violence in Sudan cross into Chad every day, 90 percent of them women and children, many have no choice but to stay out in the open or under trees, while others are sleeping in makeshift shelters close to the border.

SOUNDBITE (English) Brice Degla, Senior Emergency Coordinator, Chad, UNHCR:
“UNHCR is identifying sites far from here, at least 50 km from here, to relocate people from the
border so that the risk of insecurity at least is resolved but also provide assistance to them.”

UNHCR is working with the Government of Chad and partners to register the new arrivals and provide them with life-saving assistance. Refugees are also being relocated to existing refugee camps, about 50 kilometers away from the border where they can receive support and settle in ahead of the upcoming rainy season.
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