Download logo UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned by the rapidly increasing number of Sudanese refugees crossing into eastern Chad, with nearly 20,000 people ndash; mostly exhausted and traumatized women and children ndash; arriving in the past two weeks alone. The sharpest rise has been recorded at the Tineacute; border crossing in Wadi Fira Province, where almost 6,000 people arrived in just two days. Since 21 April, over 14,000 individuals have been counted in Wadi Fira, including 12,000 in the last week, but also 5,300 people in
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