Angelina Jolie Meets with Refugees Who 'Lost Everything' After Being Displaced by Conflict in Sudan https://t.co/8HmMWiPGL6
— People (@people) September 25, 2024
Angelina Jolie is continuing her humanitarian work, raising awareness for support needed for those displaced by conflict in Sudan.
On Sept. 25, the Oscar winner, 49, shared a photo on Instagram from her visit with refugees in Adré, Chad, who have escaped Sudan amid an ongoing internal conflict in the African country that began in 2023.
Jolie urged the United Nations to "scale up the humanitarian response in Sudan and the region" as the U.N. held its 2024 General Assembly in New York City.
“The people I’ve listened to have endured unspeakable violence and have lost everything. The support from local responders here has been a lifeline for refugees who have otherwise been forgotten by the world," Jolie said in a statement about her visit.
"It is incredible to see what they have been able to achieve and the lives they have managed to save, and all the time world leaders have stood silent or turned the other way.” Jolie, who worked with the U.N.'s refugee agency in multiple positions between 2001 and 2022, wrote on Instagram that the conflict in Sudan has left more than 10 million displaced within the country, while more than 2 million others have fled to neighboring countries. As Jolie wrote, some 25.6 million people in the region "are facing acute hunger."
The director-actress recently spoke to her experiences in humanitarian work and visits to war-torn areas of the world while talking about her new movie as a director, Without Blood, with The Hollywood Reporter. Without Blood follows a woman (played by Salma Hayek Pinault) who confronts a man who had a hand in her family's murder during a past armed conflict.
"I’ve never had to experience war or lose somebody through armed conflict. But I have people I care very deeply about who have," Jolie said in the interview. "I’ve seen people who have nothing give everything. And I’ve seen people who have everything do nothing."
📌 الممثلة الأمريكية #انجلينا_جولي تزور مخيمات اللاجئين السودانيين شرق #تشاد pic.twitter.com/9yHgCGpHeH
— NabeilShakoor (@NabeilShakoor) September 25, 2024
📌 American actress #انجلينا_جولي visits Sudanese refugee camps in East #تشاد
