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Chad has closed its eastern border with Sudan after heavy fighting in the border town of al-Tina brought Sudan’s civil war closer to its territory.
The government said the move was necessary to stop repeated incursions by Sudanese armed groups and to protect civilians, though limited humanitarian exemptions could be granted. The closure followed clashes involving the Rapid Support Forces and local fighters aligned with Sudan’s army, violence that also killed Chadian soldiers and civilians.
Nearly a million Sudanese had already fled into Chad since the conflict between Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo erupted in 2023. Chadian authorities said the border closure was a security precaution to prevent the war from spilling over, and warned that the country reserved the right to respond to any aggression, while rejecting Sudanese claims that it supported the RSF.
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Investigators, who
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The 2026
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Once a month, a World Food Programme truck delivers rice, pulse, vegetable oil, and salt for school feeding in Eastern Chad.