Sudan activist's life turns upside down as war meets climate crisis
A climate expert with decade-long experience faces real-life impact of her research field when war hits Sudan. Natural disasters make refugee situation even harder as floods destroy camps
Nisreen Elsaim spent more than ten years studying how climate-change affects war zones but never thought sheʼd experience it first-hand. Everything changed when explosions woke her family up in Sudan about year and half ago
The war forced Elsaim‚ her spouse and their baby-boy to leave their home-country joining millions of other people who had to run away. The situation got even worse when nature decided to show its power: heavy rain-storms hit refugee camps making shelters unlivable and blocking help from getting through
The UN puts Sudan at the top of its climate-risk list; this double-trouble (war plus weather) made things extra hard for people trying to survive. Many refugees had to move multiple times because floods destroyed their temporary homes and ruined food supplies in the camps
