# Chad faces growing Sudan refugee burden

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336/chad-faces-growing-sudan-refugee-burden
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336/chad-faces-growing-sudan-refugee-burden.md
Podcast: [Focus on Africa](https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336)
Published: 2026-09-23T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8n9y
Audio file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0pc25n3.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/focus-on-africa-160336/episodes/chad-faces-growing-sudan-refugee-burden
Duration seconds: 1379

## Resource

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR says Chad is now hosting around 1.5 million refugees and asylum-seekers from Sudan. And despite the war entering its fourth year, the flow of people has not stopped. More than 50,000 of them have arrived in Eastern Chad this year alone. We speak with Mamadou Dian Baldé, UNHCR's Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa who recently visited some of the refugee camps in the region. And, September 23 is the International Day of Sign Languages. We look at the role of AI in advancing access to information and education for deaf communities. Presenter: Nkechi Ogbonna Producer: Rukia Bulle Technical Producer: Herbert Masua Senior Producer: Charles Gitonga Editors: Daniel Dadzie and Maryam Abdalla

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/focus-on-africa-160336/episodes/chad-faces-growing-sudan-refugee-burden/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/focus-on-africa-160336/chad-faces-growing-sudan-refugee-burden.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.