Sudanese Refugee Samira Weighs 8th Flight From Korsi Camp as Rains Threaten Fragile Shelters
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 18
Sudanese Refugee Samira Weighs 8th Flight From Korsi Camp as Rains Threaten Fragile Shelters
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 18
Summary
33-year-old Samira is considering leaving Korsi camp in Central African Republic for Cameroon as the rainy season nears, fearing the wood, straw and plastic shelters will not withstand heavy downpours.
Seven prior displacements have already driven her from Darfur to El Geneina, Nyala and finally across the border after Sudan’s 2023 war killed her husband and two daughters, then an artillery strike tore off her right arm and destroyed an eye.
Korsi houses thousands of refugees from Sudan’s civil war, many surviving on meagre WFP rations and small market trade in a settlement built for emergency survival rather than permanence.
Her family’s losses have continued even in exile: one son left a month ago on the migrant route toward Morocco and Europe and has not contacted her, while relatives were killed or scattered after RSF fighters took El Fasher in October 2025.
Samira says she would return to Darfur despite everything if peace came, underscoring how Sudan’s conflict and repeated displacement are still pushing refugees onward beyond first asylum.