Fighting over access to water in Chad kills at least 42, army intervenes
Dispute over water spirals into reprisal attacks, government says situation is ‘under control’.
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A Sudanese refugee girl carries her brother, at the Iridimi refugee camp northwest of Iriba, in Wadi Fira province, eastern Chad. [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
An elderly woman walks through the Touloum refugee camp, on the outskirts of the town of Iriba, in Wadi Fira province, eastern Chad. [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
Sudanese refugees walk through a sandstorm at the Touloum refugee camp. [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
Refugees build a house of clay bricks inside the Iridimi refugee camp. [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
Children attend classes under a tree in the Iridimi refugee camp. [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
Of Sudan’s 18 states, the RSF controls all five states of the Darfur region in the west, except for some northern parts of North Darfur that remain under army control. [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
The conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF, which began in April 2023, has killed at least 40,000 people and displaced 12 million. [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
The latest wave of displacement follows RSF attacks, with support from the SPLM-North faction, on several villages in South Kordofan. [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
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