UNHCR / EGYPT SUDANESE REFUGEES

SHOTLIST:
1. Various shots, Grandi meeting Sudanese refugees
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“I'm actually very angry.”
3. Med shot, Sudanese refugee speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“There are military leaders, groups fighting for supremacy in Sudan. They obviously don't care about their own people. What I heard these stories of loss of separated families, of hardship, of very dangerous journeys from Sudan, of people fleeing from fighting to try to find security first in other parts of Sudan, then in neighboring countries like Egypt.”
5. Med shot, Sudanese refugee speaking, meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Huwaida, Sudanese refugee:
“It’s very difficult over there. The fighting is still going on to this moment. Sudan was destroyed just like that.”
8. Med shot, Grandi talking with Sudanese refugees
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rawabi, Sudanese refugee:
“My parents woke me up to hide from the shelling. When I woke up, I didn’t understand what was going on. I was hoping it was just a bad dream.”
10. Various shots, Rawabi showing a video on her phone of smoke coming out from an explosion near her house, Rawabi looking down the balcony, Rawabi turning her face to the camera
11. Various shots, Sudanese refugee family at their balcony, Huwaida with her kids
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“And now, of course, we need to think about these people. We need to mobilize resources. We need to help them with the basics and ensuring that they are protected and supported until they can go back to their country. And I am in Egypt precisely to do that because, of course, Egypt is receiving a large number of these refugees.”
13. Med shot, refugee
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“This happened in Ukraine a year and a half ago. There was a lot of international assistance. Can the same happen to support these people, please.”
15. Med shot, Grandi listening to refugees

STORYLINE:
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, met with families who had fled fighting in Sudan and found safety in Egypt.

He urged the international community to support the people fleeing Sudan as they did the people fleeing Ukraine.

Over 153,400 Sudanese have recently passed through Egypt’s southern land borders, according to figures shared by the government as of 26 May 2023.

Following the outbreak of armed conflict in Sudan on 15 April 2023, large numbers of civilians have been forced to flee, including people who were already internally displaced because of previous conflicts in Sudan and refugees from other countries who had sought safety in Sudan.

In addition to new internal displacement, over 300,000 people, including Sudanese refugees and refugees of other nationalities hosted by Sudan, have fled Sudan to neighbouring countries or returned home in adverse circumstances – notably to Chad, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Egypt, and Ethiopia.