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HUMANITARIAN OVERVIEW
- Following attacks on the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Zamzam and Abou Shouk in Sudan in April 2025, approximately 47,110 new refugees have arrived in the provinces of Wadi Fira and Ennedi Est over the past 30 days. The majority are entering through Tiné and Birak (Wadi Fira) and Ouré Cassoni (Ennedi Est). With the situation in Sudan continuing to deteriorate, the number of refugees is expected to rise.
- Host population in Chad has very limited access to basic social services such as health care, protection, education, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). This influx of refugees jeopardizes f r a g i l e social cohesion and increases the risk of conflict between the two communities.
- Refugees, returnees, and the host population, including children, are exposed to health risks such as dengue fever, diphtheria, hepatitis E, and measles. According to the latest national report on the diphtheria epidemic in Chad, a confirmed case was reported in the town of Iriba, in Wadi Fira province
- Due to a lack of inpatient therapeutic (IPT) nutrition units in Tiné, the most severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases with complications among refugees, returnees, as well as children from the host population, are referred to the IPT treatment unit at the Iriba district hospital.
- More than 700 unaccompanied/separated children have been identified, and access to mental health and psychosocial services remains insufficient.
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
- Since the beginning of the conflict in Sudan on 15 April 2023, and as of 11 May 2025, the Chadian government, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have registered 818,015 Sudanese refugees and 216,337 Chadian returnees from Sudan. 61 per cent of the refugees and 68 per cent of the returnees are children under 18.
- Between 9 and 11 May 2025, a joint mission by the Government and Humanitarian Country Team took place in the Wadi Fira province, noted a major humanitarian crisis, with huge unmet humanitarian needs despite initial responses.
- The budget needs for the Chad component of the 2025 Sudanese Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) amount to US$ 701.3 million. UNICEF’s funding needs are US$ 48.3 million, with a funding gap of 85 per cent as of the end of April 2025. UNICEF requires US$ 41.3 million to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Eastern Chad.