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title: "Emergency assistance for refugees fleeing the Tigray crisis"
description: "Pregnant women, elderly people and the chronically ill are among the refugees arriving daily in Sudan from conflict-stricken Ethiopia. Many appear traumatised and all are in dire need of humanitarian support."
url: "https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2020/emergency-assistance-for-refugees-fleeing-the-tigray-crisis"
language: "en"
published: "2020-12-21T14:14:55Z"
modified: "2020-12-21T14:14:55Z"
---

![Leilti (30) and her daughter Lela (3) are tired after their first night sleeping under the open in Um Rakuba camp. They arrived with the rest of the family of five the day before and are waiting together with a big group of new arrivals close to the entry of the camp. Leilti is five months pregnant, and found the journey to Sudan very hard. "I wish I don't have to give birth to my baby in this place, " she tells NRC. Photo: Ingebjørg Kårstad/NRC](https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/images/countries/sudan/leilti-and-her-daughter-lela-1.jpg)

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# Emergency assistance for refugees fleeing the Tigray crisis

Published 21. Dec 2020

[Ethiopia](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=53) [Sudan](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=105) [War and conflict](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=308)

"I wish I didn’t have to give birth to my baby in this place,” says Leilti, 30, who is five months pregnant. She and her daughter are tired from sleeping out in the open after fleeing their home in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Photo: Ingebjørg Kårstad/NRC

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Pregnant women, elderly people and the chronically ill are among the refugees arriving daily in Sudan from conflict-stricken Ethiopia. Many appear traumatised and all are in dire need of humanitarian support.

“People are sleeping out in the open,” says Will Carter, country director for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Sudan. “Many families arrive with nothing more than the clothes on their back. They’re missing loved ones and are surviving on very little.”

We are on the ground providing emergency cash, education and shelter to those in need.

![](https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/images/countries/sudan/jan-rett-i-kamera-kopier.jpg)