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Life as a refugee

 

One of the twelve refugee camps on the border with Sudan. Credit: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam

Eastern Chad is a hard land: hot, well over 40 degrees Centigrade (over 100 Fahrenheit!), and very dry for most of the year, except for a couple of months during the rainy season.Yet this hostile environment has to sustain an extra population of 200,000 people from Sudan.

Refugees in Kounoungou Camp. Credit: Jane Beesley/Oxfam

These refugees are living in twelve camps sprawled along the border and depending entirely on international humanitarian aid.

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Photos: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam (top), Jane Beesley/Oxfam (bottom)

 

 
 

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