EQUAL TIMES (22/3/2019)
“There is war in Sudan. Many people are getting killed, women raped, men beaten. In Jordan, we just stay at home but it also feels like war. Discrimination. Not being able to work. It’s just like war,” says Abdul*, who fled Darfur in 2010.
He is among the more than 4,000 Sudanese people who – fleeing war and persecution – has found refuge in Jordan.
Most come from Darfur, a region where at least 300,000 people have been killed and three million people have been displaced since violence broke out in 2003. Darfuris have been systematically targeted for murder, rape and forced displacement by Janjaweed militias backed by the country’s ruling elite in Khartoum. Human rights organisations continue to express concern over ongoing human rights violations in the region.
For Abdul and many others fleeing violence in Sudan, arriving in Jordan didn’t mean finding a safe place to live. African refugees in Jordan say they are frequently subjected to racial abuse and neglected by humanitarian organisations and local authorities.
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