Refugee camps in Chad

Subject : International Relations

Section: Mapping

Concept :

People of all ages have crossed from Sudan to Koufroun, a small border village in Chad, to flee the fighting that erupted two weeks ago between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary force called the Rapid Support Forces.

Background / Sudan Crisis

Fighting broke out between the Sudanese army and the country’s main paramilitary group on April 15,2023.
Paramilitary forces claim to have taken control of the international airport in Khartoum as well as a second airport in Meroe.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces also claimed to have taken over the Presidential Palace and Army Chief General Burhan’s residence.
Many videos appeared on social media showing armed fighters driving across the runway of the city’s international airport, conducting checkpoints at crucial traffic intersections, and moving through residential areas.

About Chad

It is a landlocked state in north-central Africa.
It is named after Lake Chad.
This is the second-largest lake in Africa (after Lake Victoria) and its basin covers parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
The Sahara Desert roughly covers one third of the country.
The south has large expanses of wooded savannas and woodlands.
Chad is also a part of the Sahel region.
Sahel is a semiarid region of western and north-central Africa extending from Senegal eastward to Sudan.
It forms a transitional zone between the arid Sahara (desert) to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south.
Chad became an oil-producing nation in 2003, with the completion of a USD 4bn pipeline linking its oilfields to terminals on the Atlantic coast