Since the war in Sudan began in April 2023, more than 930,000 Sudanese refugees have sought safety in neighbouring Chad. More than 80 per cent of them are women and children; and more than 700,000 have crossed through Chad’s eastern border town of Adré alone. Since April 2023, UNHCR and Chadian authorities have relocated 646,216 […]
Read More… from Chad: Sudanese refugees face chronic underfunding of humanitarian assistance in Chad
In late 2024, serious allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse were reported by Sudanese refugee women against Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff in eastern Chad. In response, MSF immediately sent multiple investigation teams to proactively detect and investigate cases. Over several months, the investigations identified 59 allegations of misconduct, including sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse […]
Read More… from Information related to the dismissal of 18 staff in Chad
While attention in Chad is focused mainly on the war in neighbouring Sudan and the refugee camps in the east, the country has been confronted with another crisis: malnutrition. At least 5.7 million people in Chad are facing malnutrition — including 3.6 million who are severely food insecure — in a context exacerbated by conflict, displacement, climate […]
Faced with deepening gaps in international aid and rising humanitarian needs, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is increasingly stepping in to provide water and sanitation services for hundreds of thousands of refugees and residents across eastern Chad. With particularly high temperatures in recent months, the daily search for clean water has become a relentless […]
Read More… from Chad: Water crisis intensifies as temperatures soar and funds shrink
The road from El Fasher, capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, to eastern Chad can take up to 10 days to travel, and is fraught with violence and hardship for the people who take it in search of safety. An estimated 80,000 people have made this journey from North Darfur since the end of April, yet the humanitarian response […]
Read More… from Chad: Sudanese refugees safe from bombs, but struggling to survive
In the Tine transit camp and the nearby refugee camps in eastern Chad, close to the border with Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up assistance to newly arrived refugees from Sudan. They are fleeing escalating attacks and violence in North Darfur. Since the end of April, an estimated 40,000 refugees, the vast […]
Read More… from Chad: MSF calls for urgent aid to support Sudanese refugees
Bakboula Mamat Issa is one of 57,000 Sudanese people who managed to cross into Chad in the last three weeks. She fled El Fasher with her six children, who are between two and 14 years old. “I used to cultivate the land for a living. We ran for our lives leaving everything behind when armed […]
Read More… from Chad: Refuges from Sudan face dangerous journey in search of safety
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been running an emergency response in Eastern Chad for a year to address the medical and humanitarian needs of refugees who fled Sudan after the outbreak of war. Since the conflict began in April 2023 till June this year, over 600,000 Sudanese refugees have arrived in Chad as […]
Hepatitis E is spreading through refugee camps in eastern Chad where more than 550,000 Sudanese fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Sudan have taken shelter, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. The spread of hepatitis E is being exacerbated by poor sanitation and a desperate shortage of clean water in the camps, which are […]
This year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other humanitarian organizations has also responded to epidemics of climate-sensitive diseases, including multiple concurrent cholera outbreaks and the rise of dengue and malaria in several areas, including in conflict-affected settings. MSF and other aid organizations are already struggling to meet the rising health and humanitarian needs. […]
Read More… from MSF Policy Brief for The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change 2023