Deby said that Chad residents in towns and villages along Chad’s border are fighting with refugees and displaced people over limited resources. For example, he said, several thousand Sudanese refugees entered Adre, a town in the southeastern province of Ouaddai, just within the past two weeks. Chad’s 2 million refugees come from several neighboring countries besides Sudan. She said the family has been hungry since they arrived in Chad with scores of other women and children. The United Nations estimates that by the end of the year, 600,000 Sudanese refugees will have arrived in Chad.
