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
As people continue to flee the conflict in Sudan, more than 358,000 refugees have arrived at the border town Adré, in eastern Chad. Refugee camps are being built, but the shelter and basic facilities available in the camps are wholly inadequate to meet the needs of the incoming people. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) […]
Neal Russell is a pediatric doctor and advisor based in London – who has been working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for 10 years. Following a recent visit to MSF’s project in Chad’s eastern region of Sila near the border with Sudan, Neal provides his account of the situation he witnessed there. He […]
Read More… from Brother and Sister in Chad’s Andressa, on the border with Sudan
Thousands of people amassed at Chad’s eastern border in Sila region and other border areas – seeking refuge from a raging conflict in neighbouring Sudan – are at risk of losing access to vital humanitarian and medical assistance with the impending arrival of the rainy season, warns Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This is […]
Read More… from Chad: Refugees may become ‘trapped’ and ‘forgotten’ with onset of the rainy season