Red Cross warns of possible humanitarian disaster on Sudan-Chad border


  • World
  • Tuesday, 23 May 2023

FILE PHOTO: Sudanese displaced woman Sanaa Mahmoud's daughters Talia and Talien, who fled after the last crisis in Sudan's capital Khartoum, play during an interview with Reuters as they stay at a shelter in the district of Boulaq Al-Dakrour in Giza, Egypt May 13, 2023. REUTERS/Hadeer Mahmoud

GENEVA (Reuters) - Sudanese refugees are streaming into Chad so quickly that it will be impossible to relocate them all to safer places before the start of the rainy season in late June, a senior Red Cross official said on Tuesday, flagging the risk of a disaster.

Some 60,000-90,000 people have fled into neighbouring Chad since violence erupted last month, the U.N. refugee agency said this week. Tens of thousands have converged in a makeshift camp in a village named Borota where Pierre Kremer of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) was based last week.

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