Sudanese refugees are streaming into Chad so quickly that it will be impossible to relocate them all to safer places before the start of the rainy season in late June, a senior Red Cross official said on Tuesday, flagging the risk of a disaster.
have fled into neighbouring Chad since violence erupted last month, the U.N. refugee agency said this week. Tens of thousands have converged in a makeshift camp in a village named Borota where Pierre Kremer of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies was based last week.
Access to the area is expected to be difficult after the rainy season starts because large streams, known as wadis, are set to cut it off from supplies. The U.N. refugee agency has said it is seeking to move refugees gathering in border areas to pre-existing refugee camps in Chad and establish five new ones.
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