'We are one' Sudanese refugees find sanctuary with their neighbours
Women arrive carrying their children, with their belongings balanced on their heads. Some families bring bedframes, nightstands, food, chairs and suitcases, loading them on to carts pulled by donkeys and crossing into South Sudan to escape war in Sudan. "Today, I feel like I am in a safe place," says Hamed Attaher, a 26-year-old technology student from the University of Khartoum.
Attaher has been travelling since he left Khartoum a year ago, and has finally set foot on South Sudanese soil. "My aunt is waiting for me in Juba," he says.
The world's youngest country is facing the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world as thousands of displaced people continue to cross the border into South Sudan's Upper Nile state at Joda, 30 miles north of the town of Renk.
More than 12.5 million people in Sudan have been forced to flee their homes since the war broke out in April 2023. During the first weeks of December, at least 5,000 people crossed into South Sudan each day, fleeing fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
At a checkpoint on the crossing, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) categorises people as either refugees or "returnees".
For many, arriving in South Sudan means returning to a land they thought they would never see again after fleeing a civil war that began there in 2013 - these are the returnees.
This story is from the February 18, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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