Khartoum ,Feb 14( Darfur 24) Relief organizations have warned that those fleeing the war to Chad will fall into a humanitarian catastrophe, due to the lack of resources and the continued flow of refugees into the country, which hosts 37% of Sudanese fleeing violence.
About 700,000 Sudanese fled the violence in Sudan to eastern Chad, where this statistic is considered much higher than the number of refugees who arrived in Chad throughout the conflict in the Darfur region that broke out in 2003.
On Wednesday, the Norwegian Refugee Council painted a bleak picture of the conditions of Sudanese refugees in Chad, where 42% of its population lives below the poverty line, at a time when more returnees who were living in Sudan are flocking to it.
The council said, in a statement obtained by Darfur 24, that relief organizations “warn that the lack of resources paves the way for a humanitarian catastrophe, as thousands of Sudanese refugees in Chad lack food and clean water.”
He pointed out that refugees in Chad are deprived of the basic support necessary for their survival.
The war that broke out about 10 months ago between the army and the Rapid Support Forces forced nearly 9 million people to flee their homes, of whom 1.7 took refuge in neighboring countries.
The Secretary-General of the Council, Jan Egeland, said, “Families fleeing from Darfur to Chad witnessed executions, rape, random bombings, the burning of camps and massacres, simply because of their ethnic affiliation.”
He continued: “Many survivors were completely abandoned. They are forced to live in extremely difficult and humiliating conditions, in makeshift tents, even without humanitarian assistance.” A refugee woman from Darfur with her children in a refugee camp in Chad near the Sudanese border.
Most Sudanese refugees in Chad have no choice but to establish temporary homes, usually made of unstable materials, in the camps, in light of the weakness of humanitarian intervention from international organizations.