Around 90,000 people have escaped to Chad since fighting broke out in Sudan in mid-April - a major extra burden on one of the world's poorest countries
broke out in Sudan in mid-April - a major extra burden on one of the world's poorest countries.
"The extraordinary hospitality of the Chadian government and its people has been demonstrated yet again ... but the scale of this crisis requires more funding to save lives," U.N. aid agency OCHA said in a call for increased international support. Squeezed into the open-air compound, the women cook together over small braziers in the sand as children play around them.
The sudden arrival of large numbers of people has also distorted the market for goods and squeezed water supplies in Chad's remote and arid borderlands.
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