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William Carter

4 years

Sound on. The #refugee children and teachers were so keen to start classes as soon as the classrooms were built, even before all the teaching supplies had been delivered. Listen to the reaction when #girls and #boys saw blackboards being delivered. #thingswetakeforgranted

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

This week, my first 1000 SDG banknote. Crisp, beautiful, but saddening.. This note didn’t exist when I started here. 5 years ago it’d have been worth $142. Today it’s worth less than $2 #Sudan ’s full of amazing people & agricultural potential Yet millions now struggle to eat

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

Protests now forming down Africa St in #Khartoum in response to reported coup in #Sudan 🇸🇩

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

It’s infuriating and awkward as hell, but it’s been 100 days now and someone should say it. The global humanitarian financing system is unapologetically racist. As is the international protection system. A simple illustration … It’s a tale of two capitals, both hit by

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

2 years

A thousand #refugee families from #Tigray are moving into durable shelters this month in Um Rakuba camp in east #Sudan , and works for 1000 more will start shortly, ahead of the wet season Great participation of refugee and host communities, and support from @UNHCRinSudan and COR

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

300,000 people fled in 72 hours. There's so little for them to survive on; most live in makeshift shelters with no food. We're finishing needs assessments & starting distributions of relief items tomorrow in Sennar, then Gedaref. But we've little left. This is catastrophic.

Nafisa Eltahir

@nafisaeltahir

6 months

UN is saying up to 300,000 people have left Gezira state since the RSF advance began on Friday, mostly to states that are already full to capacity.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

Why is the world so casual about #Sudan ’s casualties? The international community must do better in 2024 to help relieve and end Sudan’s terrible suffering.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

8 months

This'll be unpopular, but it's been six damn months now and I'm seething... Six months of war, chaos, displacement, disease and looming famine, and the world scrolls past Sudan's suffering, the UN Security Council has barely met, and world leaders remain silent. Six months ago,

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

7 months

Today 4,000 kits of core relief items crossed and cleared from #Ethiopia into southeast #Sudan . It’s enough to improve the lives of 20,000 people, but the good news isn’t the number; it’s the route. We’ve been pushing for #humanitarian assistance to enter via as many border

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 years

In partnership with @eu_echo , a local bank, and local traders, we’re able to start distributing cash directly to #refugees who fled their homes in #Tigray . Most came with nothing, and are surviving on very little. We hope this offers them now some choice and dignity.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 years

As many of us pause for winter breaks after a rough year, perhaps unable to spend it with your own families due to Covid, spare just a moment to think also of families now split apart and displaced by bitter violence, including #refugees who’ve fled into eastern #Sudan last month

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 months

A famine is just breaking. Ethnic cleansing, and potentially genocide. The largest displacement crisis in the world. Aerial bombardments on urban areas. Humanitarian aid facing extreme arbitrary restrictions, and funding is poor. The multilateral system so far has not

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

The largest #conflict #displacement crisis on the planet is also becoming its largest #food insecurity #crisis . One in five people suffering emergency levels of acute food insecurity in the world are in #Sudan . Sudan 🇸🇩 has the highest number of people in 'emergency' food

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

In under 2 months, our multipurpose #cash programme for #refugees who fled #Tigray has directly distributed over €1m to over 8,800 refugee families. This gives people choice to buy what their families really need + boosts #local #economy Thanks @eu_echo & @UNOCHA_Sudan Hum Fund

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 years

50,000 people have now fled war-torn #Tigray , sought safety in welcoming #Sudan We’re continuing to scale up #cash assistance and #education , and will support UN @Refugees agency accelerate the #shelter response now too We’re also pushing for better #refugee #protection

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 years

In the #Tigray #refugee emergency response in east #Sudan , on top of our education and @eu_echo multipurpose #cash projects, we’re now starting to work with @UNHCRinSudan to help accelerate the #shelter response, rapidly expanding the accommodation capacity of Um Rakuba camp.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

Glad to read now the written declaration, signed by the #Sudan Commissioner of #Refugees dated 23 Dec 2020, after discussion with Ministry of Interior, and as empowered through the 2014 Asylum Act, a ‘prima facie’ approach to recognising refugees fleeing Ethiopia since 6 Nov.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

These numbers are staggering and sobering all at once; almost 4 million people have been uprooted over 108 days of violence in #Sudan . This may quickly become the largest internal displacement crisis in the world. Every number is a soul, a story, a person

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

We revised our country strategy for #Sudan , and I wanted to share a highlight here. Levels of displacement and suffering have spiked, basic services largely suspended and the economic system is collapsing, multiple armed conflicts have fragmented the country, and the broader

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 months

"The people of Sudan have been left to suffer in silence. More than 10 months on, it is past time that the bravery of the Sudanese people is matched by the concrete actions of the international community."

Sudan’s collapse is a test for the international community. We are failing it.

A call to action from international aid leaders.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

2 years

Personal news: delighted my son born this month, and now we’re a family of four I’m continuing paternity/annual leave for another month, and then heading back to Sudan Grateful for all the love and support of family, friends, and colleagues Much love to you all

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

“CNN's investigations indicate that the #ethnic profiling, detention & killing of #Tigray |ans bears the hallmarks of #genocide as defined by international law.” Where are the statements/action from states & intergov. orgs? Many #refugees now in eastern #Sudan fled from #Humera

Nick Thompson

@nickthompson

3 years

NEW: Corpses on a river in Sudan linked by witnesses to new phase of ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia's Tigray region, including mass detentions and executions. Disturbing report from @nimaelbagir @ArvanitidisCNN @katie_polglase @GianlucaMezzo @LauraSSpark

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

2 years

Our shelter programme still going strong. 1,250 durable Tukul buildings now set up with and for #Tigray |an & #Qemant #refugees in east #Sudan , working with great local suppliers and refugee and host community skills. Hundreds more in pipeline. Wet season to start in coming weeks.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

This morning we met with #Taliban newly appointed Deputy Minister for Interior, Mawlawi Noor Jalal. We discussed #humanitarian #access for intl organisations, and he affirmed assurances of cooperation with the #aid community, staff #safety , and movements, amongst other items.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

Our teams, with Sudanese and international colleagues still in place in multiple field locations, continue response efforts to the major secondary displacements following the battle of Wad Madani, in #Sudan . That is, we’re still trying to help — against the odds and ebbs — tens

William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

‘These are challenging times’, is an understatement in #Sudan . Our teams are trying tirelessly to deliver as much #humanitarian assistance as possible in Gedaref and Sennar, and will soon be starting a needs assessment in White Nile where thousands of people who fled from Wad

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

This is truly grim. More than 20 million people in #Sudan are projected to be in 'crisis' or ' #emergency ' levels of food insecurity over the next few weeks - double the estimate last year. This number is more people than those suffering high levels of acute food insecurity in

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

7 months

#Sudan ’s #humanitarian crisis is huge and brutal, still in a death spiral, and woefully neglected. Aid is getting in, but local responders should be setting the agenda. A privilege to speak with @RichPreston @BBCNews to explain why we’re in Cairo for the @sudan_crisis conference

Rich Preston

@RichPreston

7 months

Has the world forgotten about #Sudan 🇸🇩? While many of us focus on Israel/Gaza and Russia/Ukraine, at least 9000 people have been killed since civil war broke out in Sudan in April. Millions are displaced. @WillCarter_NRC says "It's absolutely neglected"

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

And for this week’s insane #Sudan numbers.. -600k people displaced in past month -7.4M people displaced since Apr ‘23 And that doesn’t count those who can’t flee, refugees, those displaced before, those facing catastrophic hunger, cholera, airstrikes, state service collapse …

UN OCHA Sudan

@UNOCHA_Sudan

5 months

#Sudan Humanitarian Update 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Over 600K displaced in the past month 🌽🥜 Significant increase in the humanitarian needs during the harvesting season due to the expansion of fighting in central and eastern #Sudan , per @FEWSNET ➡️Read the full Update 🔗

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 years

Sunset this evening over Um Rakuba #refugee camp, in eastern #Sudan . Back again at site, now with our #shelter specialist (more to follow). Next few days will be all sweat, sunburn, and sleeplessness. Hopefully some smiles too.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

Our #refugee #emergency response contribution in east Sudan continues, helping thousands with #cash , #education , #shelter . Our immediate response is poss. by @eu_echo & @NorwayMFA , + now pooled funds through @EduCannotWait & @UNOCHA_Sudan #Humanitarian Fund will help us scale up

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

2 months

These atrocious attacks on civilian settlements must stop. North Darfur's devastation is an imminent risk.

GAFFAR MOHAMMUD SAENEEN

@saeneen

2 months

Scenes of the effects of destruction in the villages west of El Fasher this morning by the RSF and its Janjaweed militias.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

#Sudan ’s #humanitarian catastrophe is one of the largest, fastest, most neglected #urban #displacement crises in the world. We need to work together, do better together. In addition to increasing support for community-led relief initiatives in Sudan, we’re starting a new

William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

We revised our country strategy for #Sudan , and I wanted to share a highlight here. Levels of displacement and suffering have spiked, basic services largely suspended and the economic system is collapsing, multiple armed conflicts have fragmented the country, and the broader

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

10 months

These numbers are atrocious. Today, 4,874,558 people are reported to have fled the harrowing armed conflict in #Sudan over the past 136 days, and are surviving on very little except the generosity of already-impoverished communities in Sudan, a threadbare #humanitarian response,

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@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

Am back visiting our team in #Darfur . Some neighbourhoods are still empty ruins scarred by #war , others are busy. Almost everyone struggling with growing food insecurity and trauma. We’re here to help children and vulnerable women affected by armed conflict, and those civilians

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

8 months

The #humanitarian situation in #Darfur #Sudan is devastating, neglected. Principled action is desperately needed. Last week we restarted our West Darfur office and aid operation. It’s been a dark, traumatic period, and my visits filled me with immense sadness, but also resolve.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

8 months

Immense suffering both sides of the Chad/ #Sudan border of West #Darfur , and too few #humanitarian resources to help the vast majority. I finished my recent mission to help reopen our West Darfur office, leaving there a strong team of both Sudanese and international staff to

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

Panic + desperation spreading quicker than the massive displacement from Wad Madani, #Sudan . It’s tough + anxious, but our teams are striving to stay & deliver. We’ve begun distributions of some #humanitarian relief items in Gedaref today, Sinjah tomorrow. But we’ve little left

William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

300,000 people fled in 72 hours. There's so little for them to survive on; most live in makeshift shelters with no food. We're finishing needs assessments & starting distributions of relief items tomorrow in Sennar, then Gedaref. But we've little left. This is catastrophic.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

8 months

200 days since this awful awful conflict in #Sudan erupted, and thousands of people are still fleeing everyday—inside and beyond the country. Almost six million people displaced in as many months. Almost no #humanitarian assistance to spare any more. World must do better.

Marie-Helene Verney

@MarieHVerney

8 months

This was the situation today at the Joda border between 🇸🇩 and 🇸🇸 Arrivals are ⬆️ by 50% this week with 2,500+ a day fleeing #Sudan conflict: unlike before the majority now are Sudanese seeking refuge in #SouthSudan - partners are struggling to keep up with limited resources

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

It's sickening, really. Sudanese people are being killed in the thousands. The world might be watching, and perhaps talking, but it is not acting. In the last month, the UN Special Representative states what's happening could 'amount to crimes against humanity', the ICC

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

In Geneina #Darfur we’re helping restore classrooms as safe learning spaces for #girls and #boys affected by this awful, awful #war . Beyond #education , this can also help their psychosocial situation. Thanks to @EduCannotWait Fund for kickstarting; we hope to further scale up.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

It's been a heartbreaking decision but we had no other choice but to suspend our office/operations in Khartoum and Darfur, and this has led to layoffs now for many of the Sudanese and international staff who were working there. Ultimately we need to scale up our responses and

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

HUMANITARIAN INFO CROWDSOURCING REQUEST SUDAN 19 APR 2023 As of today, all our staff in #Sudan (more than 300 Sudanese, 25 non-Sudanese) are accounted for, but we remain 'sheltering in place' in #Khartoum and #Darfur , where there's heavy fighting Like all civilians,

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 months

In West #Darfur our #education in emergencies programme progresses. 191 teachers & principals now trained, including in basic #psychosocial support, giving 1,500+ #girls and #boys across 13 schools in Geneina & Kerenik a safe learning space. Thanks @EduCannotWait & @SwissDevCoop

William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

In Geneina #Darfur we’re helping restore classrooms as safe learning spaces for #girls and #boys affected by this awful, awful #war . Beyond #education , this can also help their psychosocial situation. Thanks to @EduCannotWait Fund for kickstarting; we hope to further scale up.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

@JFCrisp “Aid groups warn that, without immediate access, Tigray will soon face a humanitarian disaster” When is reporting going to stop referring to this ‘disaster’ in the future conditional tense? Because, plainly, a grave humanitarian crisis has already been happening for two months.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

tens - if not hundreds - of thousands of #Khartoum families fled to Wad Madani city, and many still arrive every day am with our team there now to help distribute #humanitarian #relief items to over 3000 people today and tomorrow, + more to follow so much more needs to be done

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

A second #refugee emergency now developing in eastern #Sudan , as people flee from #Ethiopia into Blue Nile state, in addition to refugees from Tigray into Gedaref state. With a militarised territorial dispute around Fashaga also in Gedaref, the border situation is deterioriating

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

‘These are challenging times’, is an understatement in #Sudan . Our teams are trying tirelessly to deliver as much #humanitarian assistance as possible in Gedaref and Sennar, and will soon be starting a needs assessment in White Nile where thousands of people who fled from Wad

William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

-Respect local responders + fully support their efforts & ethos -Proud of our teams still delivering relief in Gedaref & Sennar for people forced again to flee for their lives, from Wad Madani, #Sudan -Disdain for those causing unnecessary civ harm, or hindering #humanitarian aid

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@WillCarter_NRC

7 months

55 people killed every day last month in #Sudan ’s vortex of deadly violence. Expanding now for 238 days. 28,480 people forced to flee every one of these days, to escape. That’s closing in on 7 million people. More people than Bulgaria 🇧🇬, Congo 🇨🇬 or El Salvador 🇸🇻.

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project

@ACLEDINFO

7 months

#Sudan : While Khartoum state registered the highest number of conflict events over the past four weeks, with more than 240, West Darfur state saw the highest number of fatalities, at approximately 860.

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@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

About 1 in 10 people have now had to flee their homes in #Sudan . Millions cannot. In 115 days armed conflict in #Sudan uprooted at least 4.25 million people, especially from #Khartoum (71%). Desperately need shelter, food, water, health, cash, safety.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

Want to build something that'll change a million lives? We're scaling up in #Sudan , and I need a #humanitarian strategist, a visionary, and a deputy. (That's all the same person / 🇸🇩♀) Apply to be our Head of Programme in #Khartoum :

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

9 months

These wars in Sudan, they killed people in the spring. Then they killed in the summer. Soon they’ll kill in the autumn too. Every day they kill. Some people are killed even before they knew they were dead. They die later from hunger, in displacement, by disease, and denial of

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

10 months

Right, stop scrolling. Just for a hellish moment, imagine this is you: Imagine with your final breaths just after you saw your husband die amid mass killings, having to tell your 11-year old son to flee 30 kilometres with his young sister, on a route into complete uncertainty, a

Nima Elbagir

@nimaelbagir

10 months

Dozens of mass graves containing the remains of more than a thousand people have been discovered in West #Darfur #Sudan . We were able to piece together how some of the victims buried there died, in one of the bloodiest massacres in Darfur’s history to date

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

Yesterday our @NRC_Norway team in eastern #Sudan distributed food to 5 communal kitchens in Wad Madani for families who’ve fled from the devastation in #Khartoum , supporting #community -led #relief efforts and helping over 1,685 people eat for the next few days Desperately need

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

8 months

Never have I seen so many thousand people die from international negligence. I'm proud of our teams around #Sudan and all the heroic local responders we've been able to help, and all those that we haven't yet. They're responding to the largest and fastest conflict-displacement

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

2 years

Cotton fields in Fashaga in full bloom

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

#Sudan , still grappling with immense suffering, is gradually slipping off the global agenda. Waning attention from policymakers, media, and the public altogether means that potential solutions to reduce this suffering are also neglected. #Art has a profound ability to evoke

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

2 years

Almost all #refugees in #Gedaref in east #Sudan fled from the Western and Northwestern zones of #Tigray Now, both @amnesty & @hrw release a joint report documenting the ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity that they were fleeing from

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

One of our aid shipments arrived and now cleared - 1,000 family tents. Another 15,000 core relief kits currently arriving into Port #Sudan . Need to get much more #humanitarian assistance to millions of people who fled from Khartoum and now surviving in deplorable conditions.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

@JFCrisp From multiple, separate testimonies (refugees, local mil, intl orgs): yes. Also, it’s pushing Sudan for the immediate repatriation of civilians who did escape. Why is no one talking about this?

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@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

Our shipment of 1000 family tents: imported into Port #Sudan , cleared, dispatched yonder, now offloaded into different field warehouses, and soon to be distributed to #displaced families in the coming days. Grateful to 🇸🇪 @Sida for this particular shipment, but for all our

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@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

Q: What do young #refugee |s from #Tigray in east #Sudan do when they’re not helping out around the camps? A: many things! One of my favourite answers though is to read pdf files of fiction #books on their phones. #youth anywhere are #innovative , and #refugees no different!

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

The continued silence of world leaders on the situation in #Sudan is deafening.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

Our emergency cash programme for families fleeing armed conflict in Khartoum 🇸🇩 has already distributed over 243M SDG to over 10,000 displaced people across 3 states. We'll continue scaling. With cash, people buy what they really need and in turn it supports local economies.

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@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

-Respect local responders + fully support their efforts & ethos -Proud of our teams still delivering relief in Gedaref & Sennar for people forced again to flee for their lives, from Wad Madani, #Sudan -Disdain for those causing unnecessary civ harm, or hindering #humanitarian aid

William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

Panic + desperation spreading quicker than the massive displacement from Wad Madani, #Sudan . It’s tough + anxious, but our teams are striving to stay & deliver. We’ve begun distributions of some #humanitarian relief items in Gedaref today, Sinjah tomorrow. But we’ve little left

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@WillCarter_NRC

4 years

This morning (day two) in Um Rakuba #refugee camp, for people fleeing from the #Tigray region, #Ethiopia . @NRC_Norway in #Sudan is working with the inter-agency response to this awful, awful crisis.

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@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

Some public recognition finally from the UN system for frontline local volunteer responders in #Sudan , who are increasingly at risk by the security state. Will UN leadership now take tangible steps for their safety?

Martin Griffiths

@UNReliefChief

5 months

Such an honour to meet some of the brave volunteers keeping #Sudan alive. From Khartoum to Darfur, they have been at the forefront of the humanitarian response in their communities. Theirs is a story of courage no matter the cost. They deserve all of our support.

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@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

It's 9 months since we arrived in east #Sudan , to help people fleeing #Tigray #Ethiopia . Since then, our @NRC_Norway team has worked tirelessly to: - distribute $2.2m directly to over 40,000 #refugees - set-up, run 36 classrooms - distribute over 8,200 #shelter /relief item kits

William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 years

This morning (day two) in Um Rakuba #refugee camp, for people fleeing from the #Tigray region, #Ethiopia . @NRC_Norway in #Sudan is working with the inter-agency response to this awful, awful crisis.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

Our 2023 annual report. It was a tough year for #Sudan 🇸🇩, and for our staff. We adapted & scaled up as best we could. We served over 445,000 people, supported local response, pushed for system-wide change. We hope to help a million people this year 🔗

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Sudan Annual Report 2023 - Sudan

Other in English on Sudan and 4 other countries about Education, Food and Nutrition, Epidemic and more; published on 5 Feb 2024 by NRC

reliefweb.int

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

I saw thousands of rooms packed with families like this (and many in much worse conditions) over the past ten weeks, whilst helping our offices resume, pivot and scale up our emergency response to the massive conflict displacement from Khartoum. The numbers of people fleeing from

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

We rehabilitated the main road used for UN/NGO #humanitarian #access from the #Chad border to West #Darfur , but it also had some other positives that’ll alleviate suffering and deprivation inside the region: -cost of transporting commercial food and goods are halved, as are

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

Our colleague, Abubaker, was killed in West Darfur Our thoughts are with his family and friends He was compassionate, dedicated to helping others He was an innocent civilian, an aid worker Devastated and outraged, we stand in solidarity with millions of civilians suffering here

NRC East & Southern Africa

@NRC_EAY

1 year

#Sudan : We are utterly devastated to receive news of the loss of our colleague Abubaker Jeddo, killed by armed men in Darfur.

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@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

There are hundreds of pockets of displaced people across #Darfur , #Sudan 🇸🇩 that couldn’t continue to seek refuge in #Chad 🇹🇩. They’re struggling to survive. We’re reopening our field office in Kerenik, where thousands of families have been affected by armed #conflict and

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William Carter

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Our #emergency response to the mass #displacement of people who fled from Al-Jazira state #Sudan is still ongoing. Today a further 1,500 displaced people in #Sennar state could receive some core #relief items. They deserve much more than we could possibly help with. And they

William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

Our teams are still responding to the major secondary displacement following the battle for Al-Jazira state, distributing relief kits to 2,698 families in Gedaref, Sennar, and White Nile (and in some areas tents) among other services over the past 3 weeks.

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William Carter

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1 year

With our team now in White Nile, #Sudan , scaling up our #emergency response to people fleeing from the devastation in #Khartoum One aspect of this response - building on the immense generosity of Sudanese communities and educators, providing a first line #education response with

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

majority of #humanitarian ngo have *not* been issued new #sudan visas in the two months since the #conflict began about 100 visa applications are still pending from over 30 orgs we've had a team of 20 on standby for over a month - we could've helped 200k #displaced people by now.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

10 months

Sudan is now the largest displacement crisis on the continent, from multiple armed conflicts and mass violence - in Khartoum, Kordofan, and Darfur. This year, numbers have leapfrogged Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, and even DRC. It's a tragic title. The former AU-UN

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

But @antonioguterres let’s face it: the world already forgot tens of millions of imperilled people in #Sudan . No use denying ‘what is.’ But also, ‘remembering Sudan’ is insufficient. A new @UN approach is needed. Look forward to your leadership on #Sudan in 2024. Yours, W

António Guterres

@antonioguterres

5 months

More than 7 million people have fled their homes in Sudan since the war broke out in April 2023. As the scale of the crisis continues to grow, the world must not forget the people of Sudan.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

I remember those halcyon days in Khartoum just before this civil war. Sips of sweet tea, sunlit palm trees, spiralling inflation, and scents of tear gas as nonviolent civilian demonstrators were dying for their democracy outside my office doors, whilst our field teams were

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 years

Our multipurpose cash programme for in Um Rakuba, in partnership with @eu_echo and the Sudan #Humanitarian Fund, is gaining pace and scale. It supports not only #refugee families, but also local communities. This in-camp marketplace was entirely built by local traders.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

the world should be ashamed about its passive indifference to ethnic cleansing if only it wasn’t so expedient for institutions to shy away, to turn a blind eye people used to feel they had a responsibility to protect those attacked but now all i see is shirking impotence

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 years

Tents are a last resort option to provide a minimum, but immediate, #shelter solution, to protect displaced people from the elements. Our teams + volunteers are busy siting hundreds of them at the moment in Um Rakuba #refugee camp, which is hosting far more than its capacity now

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

A rare moment to see UNSC focus on #Sudan , which leaps closer to the scenario of a collapsed state destabilising the region. Hopes: -Post-UNITAMS civilian protection strategy must be set & resourced -Humanitarian access must be facilitated, across all borders, into all areas

UK at the UN 🇬🇧🇺🇳

@UKUN_NewYork

6 months

The UK will raise the security situation in Sudan in the Security Council tomorrow. This follows the continued advance by paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the city of Wad Madani. The UN reports at least 250,000 people have already fled the violence.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

2 months

Dear Mr @elonmusk , @SpaceX ’s service is a lifeline in warzones like #Sudan . Civilians all over can contact loved ones, emergency responders continue, and facts be told, all with the magic of your machinery. As we face famine, please reconsider. Best, W

SpaceX to Shut Off Starlink Access for Users Outside Availability Areas

The decision is upsetting users based in Africa, where internet speeds are often slow. But SpaceX says it needs to crack down as it waits for regulatory approval in the affected countries.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

We're gravely concerned that another city in #Sudan , Dilling in South #Kordofan , is in terrible peril, due to armed conflict between three powerful warring parties. Over the past few days, thousands of residents have been forced to leave, although the city is now surrounded by

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

In Almar, Faryab Province, #Afghanistan 🇦🇫, I visited a #girls school damaged by decades of #war , but still open, even now - with permission from the authorities. It’s one of many #schools we’ll help restore to a safe learning space. #EducationCannotWait , especially not now

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

8 months

#Gaza . #Artsakh . #Darfur . #Tigray . #Rakhine . ‘Never again’ isn’t working—its really just become ‘… never mind.’ At a bare minimum, such brutal persecutions of entire peoples used to be a founding premise of international #refugee law, and drive public support for #humanitarian

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

11 months

Last week a whole town was burned down and you probably didn't notice. 100s dead, 1000s of properties destroyed, 10,000s of lives upended... It's just one event in a horrific torrent of ethnic violence in #Sudan that no-one is physically doing anything to protect civilians from.

Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH

@HRL_YaleSPH

11 months

REPORT: @HRL_YaleSPH in #Sudan @ObserveConflict finds RSF + aligned forces destroyed Sirba town, West Darfur ~4463 structures, 86% of identified structures, are assessed to have been destroyed as of 29 July 2023 Hundreds of people reportedly killed

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

8 months

Between the crossfires and chaos, there’s a classroom. And amid the haze of war, the *brightest* hope might just be found in a student’s notebook. In the burnt-out, bullet-ridden, battle-damaged wreckage of the West #Darfur #Education ministry’s printing press, hangs the balance

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

#sudan and it’s people have been generous hosts to over a million #refugees they host 2nd largest number in #Africa , 7th worldwide rn, almost 1/2 million have already left the country, but huge numbers of sudanese people still trying to leave are waiting indefinitely in a #war

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

7 months

Despite the disturbing devastation of West #Darfur in recent days, and the difficulties of pushing through a principled #aid response to help communities, and especially #conflict - #displaced people and those who couldn’t flee (including #war #widows and elderly people), our team

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

why not cash? we’re finishing a pilot for distributing cash to over 1000 families displaced from the war in khartoum—findings are promising people can purchase their priority needs, also giving a much-needed boost to local economies, rather than bypassing them thanks @eu_echo

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

6 months

Some agonising numbers from this deepening crisis ... --- 7.4 million people in #Sudan fled for their lives since April 2023. That's an average of about 20 people every minute ... for the past 9 months or 259 days or 6,216 hours or 372,960 minutes. 5.9 million of them still

IOM Sudan 🇺🇳

@IOMSudan

6 months

🚨 @DTM_IOM Sudan Monthly Displacement Overview: 🟡5,855,848 people recently internally displaced 🟡1,523,350 mixed cross-border movements 🟡Food security, health & non-food items remain priority needs. Read full DTM update here▶️

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

4 years

I’m incredibly excited to say that next month I’ll be headed to #Sudan 🇸🇩 to become the @NRC_Norway Country Director there. An attempt below to dust off my #Arabic for a video intro in the local dialect... (be kind!)

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

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Come work with us! We're externally #recruiting for a range of junior roles for Sudanese staff in our Country Office, now located in Kosti (White Nile), for positions in: Finance, Logistics, Partnerships, Grants, ICT, and Risk. Apply online or in-person:

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

updated un report today: at least 2,928,674 people in #sudan uprooted by armed conflict since 15 april 2023 in less than three months, more people have been displaced than over the last four years combined still likely to be an underestimate, and worsen

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

2 years

This is one of four zones around Um Rakuba camp, which we’ll continue to work in, as well as Qemant #refugee community in nearby Babkiri refugee camp Very proud of our team on delivering

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

1 year

disturbed by news of summary execution of west darfur governor last night my thoughts with his family, and people of west darfur met him many times as he grappled with a volatile context & acute displacement & utter abandonment this brutality in the borderlands—it must be stopped

William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

“I have two files before me. The first, security. Second, #humanitarian - which we need support for in this [ #displacement ] disaster” West #Darfur Governor, Khamees Abakar, told us in Geneina. “You’re welcome here” Clearly, political space for a solution.

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

3 years

“Civilians seeking #protection and a safe haven should be allowed to flee...” Grounded observations and call from @hrw , a leading, independent human rights org, after speaking with #refugees fleeing from #Tigray Good work @LaetitiaBader More:

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

5 months

“The scale of what’s happening in Sudan—we’re talking about famines and ethnic cleansing and state collapse—is so serious that it will probably spill into the whole region, over the borders if it’s not tackled more assertively.” @voguemagazine — A duty, but also a privilege,

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William Carter

@WillCarter_NRC

2 months

International #humanitarian conference for Sudan and neighbouring countries today in Sudan today. Strong opening statements from 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺 highlighting #humanitarian #access , civilian #protection , and general under-funding. 🇫🇷 - need for humanitarian access to quickly improve,

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