War-displaced Sudanese families reaching Tine, Chad, are met with scant international aid, relying largely on food donations from fellow refugees β both recent arrivals and those who fled earlier Sudanese conflicts.
At a transit camp here on the Chad-Sudan border, Najwa Isa Adam, 32, hands out bowls of pasta and meat to orphaned Sudanese children from el-Fasher, the site of a recent violent takeover by paramilitary forces in Sudan.
Adam herself is a refugee from the city and arrived in October. While fleeing, she says, she was held captive at gunpoint by four RSF fighters, who repeatedly raped her. A man passing by heard her cries and helped her escape.
Now, she buys and prepares food for newly arriving refugee families, using money donated by other refugees living in Tine.
"People here donβt have anything to eat," she says.
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