August 22, Adre — Hunger is killing Sudanese refugees in camps in eastern Chad, the chairman of the new Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement, Mansour Arbab, said on Wednesday.
More than 600,000 Sudanese refugees have fled violence and famine in Chad since the war broke out last April, according to United Nations figures last month. In June, it was reported that an average of 630 people were crossing the border every day.
Dozens of overcrowded camps in eastern Chad are suffering shortages of food and health care. Food rations have been reduced by budget cuts.
“The Sudanese refugees in their camps in eastern Chad are going through harsh humanitarian conditions that we cannot describe, where women and children are dying, those waiting to die cry from hunger, and those who could escape have fled to an unknown world in search of food,” Arbab said in a statement.