Race against time to stop ‘humanitarian disaster’ among Sudan refugees in Chad

Coming rainy season threatens 80,000 living in heartbreaking' conditions in vulnerable border region after fleeing war at home

Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees, many of them children, who have crossed the border into Chad risk a major humanitarian disaster" when the rainy season begins within weeks, a Red Cross official has warned.

About 80,000 people have sought refuge in the country to the west of Sudan as weeks of fighting between two warring generals forces hundreds of thousands from their homes.