‘Nowhere left for us’: the refugee who has known no peace since she was 10

<p>Since Sudan’s civil war first reached her village in 2003, Samira has been displaced seven times, enduring devastating losses and injuries along the way</p><p>Every morning, she spreads small piles of rice and spices on an aluminium tray in the market of Korsi refugee camp. Some of it comes from her monthly food ration, already meagre, distributed by the UN’s World Food Programme; some she buys when she can and resells for a small profit.</p><p>Samira crouches quietly behind her modest display, greeting customers as they pass. Her loose red <em>toub</em> cloth frames her thin face and falls across one side of it, hiding her injured right eye. Every so often she adjusts the long cloth to cover the empty sleeve where her right arm would have been. It is a habit the 33-year-old has developed since the war, but her injuries are only part of the terrible damage it has inflicted.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/18/sudanese-refugee-samira-war-injury">Continue reading...</a>