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Sudan refugees stranded without healthcare in Chad

Every day, they receive ‘up to 300 patients’ who lie on beds placed directly on the sand, close to each other. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Sudan’s war have crossed into Chad to find themselves in overcrowded camps, sweltering in plastic huts and awaiting healthcare that never comes. One of them, Adam Bakht, is

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Chad to resettle Sudanese refugees from Adré

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Chad jails 262 people in mass trial after fatal protests

Chadian court sentenced 262 people to prison terms of two to three years who were arrested after the fatal protests in October, the prosecutor said on Monday. A total of 401 people were put on trial at Koro Toro Prison, a high-security prison located in the desert 600 kilometers (375 miles) from the capital, N’Djamena.

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Searching for graves in flood-hit Chad

First came torrential rains that destroyed the banks of the rivers, washed away houses and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Now, more brutally, floods hitting Chad, one of the world’s poorest countries, are preventing people from burying their dead. Many cemeteries in the capital, N’Djamena, have been cut off by roads and others flooded,

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French-Australian conservationist Jérôme Hugonneau is reported to have been kidnapped in Chad.

Unidentified kidnappers reportedly abducted a French-Australian wildlife worker in Chad. Jerome Hugonneau was working for the Sahara Conservation Foundation in Wadi Fara province, which borders Sudan, when he was kidnapped on Friday, according to multiple media outlets. An environmentalist is reportedly running a nature reserve in northeastern Chad where a non-governmental organization is working to

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