Nyauke waits at the UNHCR transit center in Renk. “We will go,” she says, “as soon as we can find a way.” She is determined to find a stable place with enough space for her family.
They plan to seek safety in Warrap state, roughly halfway across the country from Renk. Now, Achan is focused on her family’s future. “I could not stay in Khartoum with my children, it was too dangerous. "We faced many problems along the way, it was so bad, we saw fighting and had to hide,” Achan shares. Achan and her six children embarked on a dangerous and uncertain five-day journey from Sudan, crossing the border into South Sudan in search of safety. Meet five Sudanese and South Sudanese women who are sharing their personal experiences with displacement and learn how they are finding hope away from home.Īchan sits with three of her six children, Deng, 1, Agook Akech, 3, and Acel Akech, 5, outside the UNHCR transit center in Renk, South Sudan due to a lack of space inside the center. Children’s education has also been disrupted amidst ongoing conflict. Women and girls in Sudan are at increased risk of sexual violence, with more than 4.2 million Sudanese women in the country vulnerable to gender-based and intimate partner violence. Women and children make up almost 90 percent of Sudanese refugees fleeing to Chad - nearly half of all new arrivals are children. More than 13 million Sudanese children are in need of humanitarian assistance. Many South Sudanese refugees who had sought safety in Sudan are now forced to return to their home country but often do not have a place to return to. The crisis has displaced more than 3 million people, including 659,000 forced to flee to neighboring countries with over 279,000 departures in early to mid-July alone. Women and children are facing some of the most devastating impacts of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
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