Nachbarländer Sudans können Flüchtlinge nicht versorgen

Viele Menschen fliehen aus dem Sudan in Nachbarländer, die selbst zu den ärmsten der Welt gehören.

Der Tschad und Südsudan gehören beide zu den am wenigsten entwickelten Staaten der Welt und sind angesichts des weiter anhalten Bürgerkriegs im Sudan nun auch noch Länder, in denen zehntausende von Sudanesinnen und Sudanesen Zuflucht suchen:

More than 110,000 people are now estimated to have crossed into other countries as patchy ceasefires fail to stop deadly clashes between Sudanese army troops and a paramilitary rival that have killed hundreds and forced more than 330,000 from their homes.

But, in a region suffering acutely from hunger and already hosting sizeable refugee populations with vastly decreased funds, aid workers are warning there are serious questions over what awaits the new arrivals once they cross the border.

In Chad, where more than 30,000 people have arrived since the fighting began in mid-April, the UN’s emergency food assistance programme is planning for as many as 100,000 new refugees to arrive over the coming weeks and months.

But the imminent rainy season threatens to cut off remote border regions and means it is essential that food stocks are “pre-positioned” now in strategic locations, such as in Farchana refugee camp in the east, warned Pierre Honnorat, Chad spokesperson for the World Food Programme.

“The rains are coming … and in six to eight weeks the roads will be hardly passable. Which is why this is a race,” he said. It is also only weeks until the start of the lean season between harvests, which was already expected to leave an estimated 1.9 million people severely food insecure.

Chad, which was home to 580,000 refugees of various nationalities before this latest conflict, ranks second to last in the UN’s Human Development Index (HDI).

Last is South Sudan, where almost 30,000 people have arrived in recent weeks, most of them returning to a country they fled during a brutal civil war. Central African Republic, which has received about 6,000 refugees, is the world’s fourth least developed nation.