Sudan civil war overwhelms border town in Chad

Fatima Omas Abdullah wakes up every morning with aches and pains from sleeping on bare ground for almost two years.

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She did not expect Sudan's civil war to displace her for so long into neighbouring Chad.

“There is nothing here,” she said, crying and shaking the straw door of her makeshift home. Since April 2023, she has been in the Adre transit camp a few hundred meters from the Sudanese border, along with almost a quarter-million others fleeing the fighting.

Now the US-backed aid system that kept hundreds of thousands like Abdullah alive on the edge of one of the world’s most devastating wars is fraying. Under the Trump administration, key foreign aid has been slashed and funding withdrawn from United Nations programs that feed, treat and shelter refugees.