Portraits of Sudanese refugees who fled to Chad

A year after the start of the war, photographs show some of the nearly one million people from Sudan now living in refugee camps in Chad

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  Twenty-four-year-old Sudanese refugee Albakir Abbas Ishag poses for a photograph inside his shelter in the Koufroun refugee camp. All photos AFP

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  Chad is home to the largest number of Sudanese refugees, nearly a million

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  Twenty-five-year-old Sudanese refugee and nurse Najad Suliman Naji

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  Sixty-five-year-old Sudanese refugee Fatima Kamoun Adam puts her shelter in order in the Adre refugee camp

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  Fifty-six-year-old Sudanese refugee Hada Ishag Fadalah. In a year since the conflict in Sudan started between two rival factions of the military government, more than 571,000 have rushed there on foot or by mule, adding to more than 400,000 compatriots who fled the previous Darfur war since 2003

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  45-year-old Sudanese refugee Fatima Ibrahim Adam poses for a photograph next to her shelter in the Koufroun refugee camp, on April 9, 2024. Chad is home to the largest number of Sudanese refugees, nearly a million. In a year since the conflict in Sudan started between two rival factions of the military government, more than 571,000 have rushed there on foot or by mule, adding to more than 400,000 compatriots who fled the previous Darfur war since 2003. (Photo by Joris Bolomey / AFP)

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  Twenty-three-year-old Sudanese refugee and student Asha Mohamat Mousa weaves a dish with plastic threads inside her shelter in the Tongori refugee camp

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  Thirty-four-year-old Sudanese refugee Halima Mahamat Abakar sits inside her shelter in the Adre refugee camp

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  Forty-year-old Hamra Ibrahim Hamed, left, with her three children in front of their shelter in the Farchana refugee camp

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  Thirty-three-year-old Sudanese refugee Maka Abdulrhaman sits in front of the shelter she built in the Farchana refugee camp

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  A Sudanese refugee poses for a photo with some of her belongings in the Farchana refugee camp

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  Thirty-six-year-old Sudanese refugee and teacher Abdulrachid Adam Mohammed gives Arabic lessons at the Al Tadamoun school in the Farchana refugee camp

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  Sudanese refugees in the Farchana refugee camp

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  A young Sudanese refugee reacts while playing inside a shelter under construction in the Farchana refugee camp

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  Twenty-six-year-old Sudanese refugee Hamra Adam Mohammed inside the shelter she built in the Farchana refugee camp

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  Two young Sudanese refugees in the Farchana refugee camp

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  Forty-three-year-old Sudanese refugee Mona Ahmed Rizig

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  Sudanese refugees gather to fill cans with water from a water point

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  Thirty-six-year-old doctor and Sudanese refugee Yassin Ishag Dawod gets an intravenous drip ready while attending a patient in the Farchana refugee camp

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  Refugees push logs into a brick oven in Adre

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  A man walks in the market of the Adre refugee camp

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