Sudanese Arab refugees face hostility and distrust after fleeing to Chad

Asya Sanusi-Bashir is among the refugees considered particularly vulnerable at the Abu Ghudam refugee settlement. She is a Sudanese Arab. As a refugee, she is repeatedly and wrongly accused of belonging to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces. Those fighters are also predominantly Arab. A militia that has been carrying out ethnic cleansing against non-Arab communities in Sudan for years. We are people like that. Those of us Arabs with lighter skin. are not accepted anywhere but here. People cannot bear to see us. Thank Alongside the threats, Asya has been denied jobs and even permission to pass through certain villages solely because of her ethnicity. To help end the confusion between Arab refugees and Arab Arab Arasa fighters, a traditional leader from another community represents the Abu Ghudam you. camp. We are trying to bring about some reconciliation. We believe we need to promote peaceful coexistence because this camp is part of the community. We are constantly trying to improve relations between this refugee community and the people living in the area. Thank you very much. There is another difficulty. With fewer than 1,000 residents in its location close to the small town hosting it, Abu Ghudam camp receives humanitarian assistance less regularly than most settlements for Sudanese refugees in Chad. The UN Refugee Agency manages the camp, but like other United Nations agencies, it has seen its budget fall sharply in recent years. He is. We cannot set up large-scale facilities for a population of no more than 1,000 people, For a population that is perhaps 2,000... when we also have needs at sites hosting 25 to 30,000 people. People are doing 50,000 persons. In Abu Ghudam, after more than three years of war in Sudan and the stigmatization of their community, Arab refugees are still calling for more humanitarian assistance where they live.