After fleeing Sudan’s war, refugees battle thirst in Chad’s camps
Goudrane and Adre, Chad – The water tanks had been bone dry for four days when a water truck crested the ridge above Goudrane refugee camp in eastern Chad, home to about 50,000 Sudanese refugees.
Rokhia Ibrahim, 43 and a Sudanese schoolteacher, inside the school building in the Goudrane refugee camp in eastern Chad [Mirja Vogel/Al Jazeera]Less than a year ago, Ibrahim fled fighting around el-Fasher.
Water is distributed at Goudrane refugee camp in eastern Chad, where humanitarian agencies say growing needs are outpacing available resources [Mirja Vogel/Al Jazeera]The French humanitarian organisation Solidarites International has been operating in Chad since 2008, but says the water crisis unfolding in refugee camps in the east is among the most urgent emergencies it has faced in the country.
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