Inside the crowded camp where Sudanese refugees have fled violence and hunger
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | For two years now, Sudan has been torn apart by civil war, as the Sudanese armed forces have fought with the paramilitary rapid support forces. |
| 0:10.0 | Millions of Sudanese have fled many to neighboring Chad. |
| 0:14.0 | The UN says it is now one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent memory. |
| 0:19.3 | And caring for the millions in need has been made harder |
| 0:22.2 | by the Trump administration's shutdown of USAID. |
| 0:26.1 | Correspondent Neha Wadakar and filmmaker Zoe Flood, with the support of the International |
| 0:31.2 | Women's Media Foundation, traveled last year to document the crisis on Chad's eastern border, |
| 0:37.0 | where hundreds of thousands |
| 0:38.6 | fled violence but then faced starvation. They report now that the situation is, if anything, |
| 0:45.8 | worse. And a warning. Accounts and images in this story are disturbing. |
| 0:52.0 | I come from Sudan, but now in chat, TV. |
| 0:56.0 | In Sudan, we were always happy. |
| 0:59.0 | We played football with friends, |
| 1:01.0 | but since we arrived here, we were not really happy. |
| 1:05.0 | At 10 years old, |
| 1:07.0 | Abdu Salam Mustafa has already experienced |
| 1:10.0 | more trauma than many adults ever will. I met Abdu Salam Mustafa has already experienced more trauma than many adults ever will. |
| 1:12.6 | I met Abdu Salam and his mother, Munira, in a refugee camp on the Chad Sudan border, |
| 1:18.6 | where they live in the corner of a large tent partitioned among dozens of families. |
| 1:23.6 | It was difficult to move around. We set off to go to a nearby town that was safer. |
| 1:31.3 | We went late at night, but we were attacked on the road. |
| 1:35.3 | People were killed. Some were hit by cars. |
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