Sudan: Adre Border Crossing Snapshot (May 2025)

OVERVIEW

The Adre border crossing — the most direct and efficient route for aid to reach millions of people in Darfur — serves as a critical lifeline for the timely delivery of life-saving assistance to affected populations in Darfur and parts of Kordofan.

Adre provides an essential alternative to the Tine border crossing from Chad into Sudan. While Tine remains open, conflict, criminal activity and physical barriers along the route in Darfur continue to pose significant access challenges for humanitarian operations. With the onset of the rainy season, heavy rains and flooding further compromise the viability of this route, rendering it largely impassable.

The Tine corridor also presents serious risks for civilians fleeing violence in Sudan and attempting to reach safety in Chad. Many newly arrived refugees have reportedly faced extortion and violence along the way. According to UNHCR, Tine is now receiving the largest influx of refugees from Sudan into Chad, with nearly 20,000 people arriving in Wadi Fira Province in just two weeks. Humanitarian partners indicate that many more are either en route or waiting at the border in dire need of assistance.

Given these operational and protection challenges, the Adre crossing needs to remain permanently open to enable the continued flow of life-saving humanitarian aid into Sudan at the scale required.

Between August 2024 and May 2025, about 1,600 trucks carrying 54,300 metric tons of life-saving humanitarian cargo entered Sudan via the Adre crossing. These supplies were sufficient to meet the urgent needs of 2.3 million of the most vulnerable people.

Most of this cargo (77 per cent) consisted of emergency food and livelihood support items, while the remainder included critical health, water, sanitation and hygiene, shelter, non-food, education and nutrition items.

These humanitarian goods were distributed to about 742,000 people in Central Darfur, 557,800 in West Darfur, 424,000 in East Darfur, 382,400 in North Darfur, 102,000 in South Darfur and 73,900 in West Kordofan.