Sudanese refugees from Darfur in Niger, have organized a protest
that lasted for the twelve days in a row , demonstrating over lack
of food and poor living conditions.
However, these days Darfur refugees in Niger live tragic conditions
in Agadir refugee camp.
In an interview with Darfur 24, One the refugees in Agadir camp,
hailing from North Darfur, named Adam Fadil, recounted the suffering
of the Sudanese refugees in the camp these days.
Fadil said that he fled Sudan in 2003, owing to the outbreak of war
in Darfur and the systematic ethnic cleansing and genocide by the
Janjaweed militias supported by the Sudanese government.
” My entire family members were killed except my sister and I escaped,
and I still have not found my sister yet. At this difficult time,
we were displaced from our villages to the big cities under the
protection of the United Nations, humanitarian organizations and the
African Union, which did not play a sufficient role to protect us from
killing and purging, even within the displacement camps that We
resorted to it inside the big cities, which forced us to flee for the
third time, but this time we sought refuge in the neighboring
countries that embraced us for a while, but the misfortunes chased us
there because of the Sudanese government and its foreign policies and
others because of the collapse of state systems and the security
collapse that accompanied it” Amigdam added .
“Since we escaped from the hell of Libya in 2017 and our arrival in
Niger, IOM received us at its headquarters in Agadir, then we were
handed over to an international organization called UNHCR in the same
year, we stayed for about 6 months, after which the war in Libya
became more virulent, which led to a massive influx of refugees to the
UNHCR, due to which was the famous (Madama) plot by the Nigerian
government and the unhcr organization, which killed 109 people who
could not escape the grip of the government, and the organization
stood You look idle” Almigdad further added.
Al-Miqdad explains the “Madama” story, saying, “This is a painful
story, as those seeking a decent life in the border desert between
Libya and Niger were dumped in an area known as“ Madama
However, some of them were victims of human trafficking, some of them
were victims of the Mediterranean, and some of whom we had not heard
about them so far may have been swallowed up by the sands of the
desert.
He continued, “After this heinous conspiracy, the organization drove
us 17 kilometers away from the city in a barren desert area that no
one inhabited before us, an area that is not suitable for housing in
terms of dust, heat, and . We Sudanese only were expelled by the
organization without other nationalities and by this we were isolated
from External community ”
Al-Miqdad described the camp as lacking the most basic elements of
life, as the rooms are made from plastic and everyone knows the heat
of the weather in Niger, which prefers to sit in direct sunlight
instead of staying inside the plastic tent, where the temperature
exceeds 48 degrees.
Despite the city’s distance from the camp, the organization did not
provide transportation to and from it, even once a week. This
indicates the local authorities and the organization intended
isolation of the Sudanese refugee from the local community, while
preventing the independent media from visiting us.
There are those who are mentally disturbed , left the camp and we
could not find them or their bodies, while the organization did
nothing about that, and for these reasons an Italian organization
called (Mido) came claiming that it is interested in mental health,
but unfortunately we did not see anything other than its patients
’addiction to medical drugs Like tramp and systemic pills, I myself
was affected by it and I got addicted to pills as I couldn’t sleep
without taking a dose of it.
He appealed to all humanitarian, human rights and international
bodies, and to everyone who has a human conscience to look at Sudanese
refugees with a sense of compassion