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 to another crisis: malnutrition. There, 5.7 million people are facing malnutrition—including 3.6 million who are severely food insecure—in a context exacerbated by conflict, displacement, climate shocks, and economic deterioration1. This … Read more
Since July 2025, a cholera epidemic has been ravaging eastern Chad, revealing the challenges associated with a fragile water supply and sanitation systems. As at 26 September, more than 2,475 cases and 141 deaths had been recorded. In overcrowded Sudanese refugee camps and impoverished host communities, conditions are sadly ideal for the disease to spread. … Read more
Faced with deepening gaps in international aid and rising needs, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is increasingly stepping in to provide life-saving water and sanitation services for hundreds of thousands of refugees and local residents across eastern Chad. With particularly high temperatures in recent months, the daily search for clean water has become a relentless struggle … Read more
In Tine and Oure Cassoni camps in eastern Chad, close to the border with Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is increasing its support for recently arrived Sudanese refugees. In these overcrowded camps, people face harsh conditions and limited access to food, shelter, water, and healthcare. The current humanitarian response is grossly insufficient, and greater support from … Read more
Adré, 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 launched a mass distribution of essential life-saving items such as plastic sheeting, mosquito nets, and … Read more
Emergency 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 electricity, humanitarian organizations like MSF typically rely on diesel-run generators, but it can be … Read more
N’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 Chad, almost 92,0002 people, most of them Chadian returnees,3 continue to survive in very precarious … Read more
Access 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 water availability across all camps in eastern Chad is less than six litres per person … Read more
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. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling … Read more
By 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 (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—has rekindled fault lines in communities throughout Darfur, … Read more