Chad: MSF brings life-saving essentials to Sudan’s refugees in ‘humanitarian void’
July 8, 2024Adré, Chad – June 27, 2024 - As the rainy season begins in Chad, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is significantly scaling up its activities in eastern Chad for refugees who fled the war in Sudan. Our teams have...
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Tapping into solar energy to power emergency response: MSF logisticians are testing ways to supply energy for medical activities in places with unreliable electricity
June 5, 2024Emergency medical response often relies on electricity, yet this crucial resource can be difficult to access in insecure settings. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been trying to find sustainable solutions to this obstacle.In places where there is no...
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Chad-Sila Region: Almost one year on, people fleeing Sudan’s violence continue to face an insufficient humanitarian response
February 20, 2024N'Djamena, 19 February, 2024- Since the start of the war in Sudan 1.6 million people have fled the country seeking safety, including an estimated 610,000 1 who have crossed into Chad. Almost a year on in the Sila region, eastern...
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Chad: Alarming water crisis in Adré puts refugees’ lives at risk
October 19, 2023Access to safe drinking water in the camps at Adré, a border town in eastern Chad, remains far below acceptable standards, posing a grave threat to the health and wellbeing of around 200,000 Sudanese refugees. According to UNHCR estimates, average...
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MSF calls for urgent international help for Sudanese refugees in Chad as major crisis looms
August 14, 2023As 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...
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“I saw many corpses on my way” – Stories from the massive influx of wounded Sudanese in eastern Chad
August 3, 2023By the time the current conflict in Sudan broke out in mid-April, its Darfur region had already been facing war and ethnic violence for over two decades. Today’s fighting – which first erupted in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces...
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Sudan: child refugees in Chad, the direct victims of the conflict
July 9, 2023Sudanese refugees continue to flood into Chad following the conflict that rages in their country, particularly in West Darfur. Among them are infants, children and adolescents who are vulnerable and, in some cases, severely injured. The pediatric ward at the...
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Over 600 war-wounded Sudanese arrive in Adré hospital in eastern Chad in the space of just three days
June 16, 2023June 16, 2023 - As violence rages in West Darfur, wounded people are coming in waves to Adré hospital in Chad, where they are being treated by MSF and Ministry of Health teams. At least 242 wounded were received on...
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Refugees in eastern Chad may become ‘trapped’ and ‘forgotten’ with onset of the rainy season
June 10, 2023N’djamena, Chad, 9 June 2023 - 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...
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Chad: MSF teams received more than 70 wounded in Adré and are extending activities in response to the conflict in Sudan
June 2, 20232 June, 2023 - A total of 72 wounded people from Sudan have been treated at the hospital in Adré, eastern Chad, by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in partnership with the local health authorities. This is as a result of...
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Vaccination campaign for Sudanese refugees in Koufroun, Chad
May 8, 2023Since the resumption of the conflict in Sudan, around 30,000 people have fled to Chad according to the UNHCR. Médecins Sans Frontières is carrying out a vaccination campaign to protect children against measles in temporary camps set up at the...
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Chad: A new path, Her path
August 10, 2022What would maternal healthcare look like if it was designed by the women who use it? An MSF team in Chad is working to find out... Noor Cornelissen, MSF project coordinator in Chad, shares that in the new MSF pilot...
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