Port Sudan, Sudan - July 20, 2024

Port Sudan, Sudan - Recent

Foreign refugees in Sudan remain stuck in limbo with no end in sight as the ongoing armed conflict between the two rival military factions in the country causes more difficulties for them to return to their home countries.

The armed conflict which broke out between the Sudanese Army and the rival Rapid Support Forces in Sudan last year has displaced more than 10 million people including hundreds of thousands of foreign refugees.

According to statistics released by the United Nations, Sudan housed about 1 million foreign refugees before the armed conflict.

After the outbreak of the conflict, the foreign refugees affected by the war, like many Sudanese, have to move to other areas free from the war, and many were even forced to move from place to place.

Khatir is living in a shelter in the eastern Sudanese city of Port Sudan that accommodates hundreds of displaced people, including dozens of foreign refugees like Sara Khatir.

Converted from a school, the shelter is in poor conditions and overcrowded, almost entirely dependent on volunteers and humanitarian aid agencies to maintain its operations, with food, medicine and other necessities in short supply.

Water and electricity supply is often interrupted, sanitation is poor, and infectious diseases happen occasionally.

Shotlist:
Port Sudan, Sudan - Recent:
1. Various of refugees, camps;
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sara Khatir, refugee, South Sudan:
"I'm running to South Sudan. I'm coming towards Khartoum. War will come to Sudan, [including] Khartoum. Therefore, I am coming to Port Sudan.";
3. Various of refugees at shelter;
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Edris Jop, refugee, Morocco (partially overlaid with shot 5):
"Most of the people used to live after the donations of organizations. We leave everything behind us since we came in Khartoum. To return, it is our wish, all of us. But we don't have even a single coin that we can pay to reach even at the Egyptian border.";
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5. Various of refugees;
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6. Various of refugees.

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