The situation of Sudanese refugees in neighbouring Chad is reaching a breaking point as the number of arrivals in the country increases,
Chad hosts a quarter of the 4 million refugees who fled the Sudanese civil war since April 2023.
An additional 80,000 people left Sudan for eastern Chad in the past two months, after armed groups attacked displacement camps in North Darfur, according to media report.
These assaults have killed more than 300 civilians as of 3 June, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The UN refugee agency said most of the newly-arrived people in Chad had suffered violence, with 72% reporting “serious human rights violations, including physical and sexual violence, arbitrary detention, and forced recruitment.