Advisory to Refugees In South Sudan - Be Aware

Staff Writer. April 06, 2025.

We are warning refugees to exercise caution in countries where there is war or currently threat of war, such South Sudan:

1. Do not follow paths established by frauds and purported leaders of LGBT human rights related social groups, some of whom are not authentically who they claim, who are among others pretending to be part of such social group - they do not have the same to lose as you do.

2. Beware of following the advice of a U.S. based person by the name of Christine Reuther, who purports to direct an organization called AQRDP Federation: This is a person who has no real experience of Africa other than what she is told by third parties. It is clear by her actions, evidenced by programs, social media and her email outreach that she is not experienced in the field of refugee protection and has no expertise in the laws of the country, international instruments, or safe-practice diplomacy on the continent of Africa. Around 2021/22 she intervened with a group in Kakuma camp, Kenya, and was involved in 2023/24 in moving vulnerable refugees out of Kenya to South Sudan. It is alleged that she encouraged the move and paid transport for groups that claimed such profiles to go to South Sudan. This led to even more arrivals when it seemed that the US was pursuing resettlement. There is currently no resettlement to the USA from South Sudan. It was always at risk. This has now led to the current situation, where upon her own admission certain refugees are not safe in South Sudan, due to the instability of government and a volatility that is leading South Sudan possibly back into civil war. She is now making allegations against UNHCR and misrepresenting aspects of the current situation, a repeat of her Kakuma modus operandi that landed vulnerable refugees in this situation. She is further exploiting the very refugees she endangered, in a fundraising effort, to move such refugees back to Kenya. There is written evidence of this.
   

3. AHRC warns as follows:

   
   

   a. LGBT Refugees should only follow the advisories of UNHCR and legitimate agencies in the field.

   b. Several LGBTQ who followed the path Reuther had suggested were arrested on the Kenyan border and spent 6 weeks of starvation and torture in a prison until the situation was resolved.

   c. Anyone attempting travel without proper documentation and full understanding of the risks involved during a time of extreme volatility risk serious injury and imprisonment.

   d. ALSO REMEMBER TRAVEL CAN IMPACT STATUS - and she has made no attempt to research this per individual case, which is what it would take to ensure viability of any move or pathway.
   

4. There is no doubt that when she sees this, Reuther will, yet again, try and defame and cancel African Human Rights Coalition, and Melanie Nathan, the Executive Director, as she previously did in an untruthful, inflammatory and slanderous petition, which was removed by Change-dot -org when they were presented with the evidence. Reuther, who started fundraising for Kakuma refugees in 2021, attempted to cancel a decade of AHRC work. Every time AHRC has issued a warning with an outcome, we have been proved correct, as we are now. South Sudan was not a safe place to move people at the time when she allegedly orchestrated such moves.
   

5. The only reason we are compelled to mention names and to publish this advisory, at risk, is because we believe that vulnerable and desperate refugees may believe that this person is qualified to move refugees when she is not!
   

6. AHRC cannot provide solutions for the current situation. We urge people not to panic and to ONLY follow official UN advisories.