--- title: The 'World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis' Comes Into Focus description: Photographer Nicolò Filippo Rosso documented his recent trips to a refugee camp in Adré. canonical: https://time.com/7011382/sudanese-refugees-adre-chad-photos/ author: Solcyré Burga article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-08-22T18:33:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-01-19T10:41:52.000Z article:section: World og:title: The 'World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis' Comes Into Focus og:description: Photographer Nicolò Filippo Rosso documented his recent trips to a refugee camp in Adré. og:url: https://time.com/7011382/sudanese-refugees-adre-chad-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33f8fbd5617a7683/698a59fd47ca38ca203bde35/sudan-refugees-chad-conflict-crisis-17.jpeg?branch=production og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1600 og:image:alt: sudan-refugees-chad-conflict-crisis-17 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 'World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis' Comes Into Focus twitter:description: Photographer Nicolò Filippo Rosso documented his recent trips to a refugee camp in Adré. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33f8fbd5617a7683/698a59fd47ca38ca203bde35/sudan-refugees-chad-conflict-crisis-17.jpeg?branch=production --- # At a Camp for Sudanese Refugees, the Overlooked 'Worst Humanitarian Crisis in the World' Comes Into Focus > Sponsored content. 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A girl runs carrying her belongings in search of a shelter to hide from the sandstorm and the looming rain in Adré refugee camp.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  by [Solcyré Burga](https://time.com/author/solcyre-burga/)  ## Solcyré Burga Reporter Updated: Jan 19, 2026 10:41 AM UTCPublished: Aug 22, 2024 6:33 PM UTC Adré is supposed to be a town of transition. Perched on the border between Chad and Sudan, the city, which was initially used for cross-border trade, has now become the passing point for people escaping civil war and famine in what some diplomats [have called](https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-at-the-un-security-council-stakeout-announcing-additional-humanitarian-assistance-for-sudan-and-neighboring-countries/) the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world.” More than [600,000 refugees](https://www.unhcr.org/us/news/stories/facing-grief-and-hunger-sudanese-refugees-chad-hope-world-will-not-forget-them) have reportedly fled from Sudan to Chad in the last 16 months, meaning the neighboring country has seen more Sudanese refugees in one year than the previous 20 years combined, many of which have settled in makeshift borders, per remarks made by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Another 10 million people remain forcibly displaced within Sudan since the internal political conflict began in April 2023\. The newly-arrived families, mostly women and children, are entirely reliant on the aid of humanitarian groups, but in order to receive such assistance people must first wait their turn to be registered, which can take days, says Nicolò Filippo Rosso. A documentary photographer, Rosso visited refugee camps in Chad earlier in the summer, during trips with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Health Organization (WHO).  Sudanese women and children register with Chadian authorities upon arrival in Adré, a border town in the Ouaddaï province.Nicolò Filippo Rosso Rosso recounts meeting one pregnant woman who had recently arrived at the refugee camp in Adré with her children and was on the verge of giving birth. Sharing her plight, the woman told him that her children were exhausted from walking, had high temperatures, and were not eating properly. The town of Adré is largely overwhelmed. “I've seen a lot of things related to migration in many places, but this was the first time that I really felt that it couldn't be worse than that,” says Rosso. “There is a lot of intervention from NGOs and from United Nations agencies, but it's not complete because Adré is so close to the border that it is unsafe because there are gangs raiding the camps at night, and [raping women and girls](https://www.dw.com/en/crisis-in-sudan-sexual-violence-rape-and-ethnic-attacks/a-69538323), and there is a lot of traffic of weapons.” Even so, there have been several obstacles to distributing aid. Adré was closed off to international aid for six months, [though it was announced on Aug. 15 that the embargo had been lifted.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/world/africa/sudan-chad-adre-border-crossing-reopens.html) In June, the UNHCR [said](https://www.unhcr.org/us/news/briefing-notes/unhcr-urges-support-address-urgent-needs-sudanese-refugees-chad-border#:~:text=UNHCR%2C%20the%20UN%20Refugee%20Agency,season%2C%20immediate%20action%20is%20needed.) they only received 10% of the requested $214.8 million in aid necessary to help refugees at the border. The ask was made just prior to the rainy season, which typically lasts through September, and could exacerbate the existing crisis and cause outbreaks of waterborne diseases, according to the UNHCR.  Sudanese refugee women collect water from a well at Adré refugee camp.Nicolò Filippo Rosso Rosso, who himself contracted malaria, pneumonia, and COVID-19, says it's very common to get these diseases. “The point is that you can cure malaria, you can cure COVID, but it's open \[defecation\]. There is no sanitation, so the condition\[s\] people are living in is bad,” he says. The photographer, who has documented other migrant crises in the Americas, typically composes black-and-white work, but has used color in the project to better encapsulate the “dignity that the Sudanese refugees have and their openness to each other, to others.” “These women who are alone and \[have gone\] through violence of all kinds are there with their children maintaining pride,” Rosso says. “Color also is full of details that sometimes can distract you from the pain.”  Namarkh Babikir (left) and Hawa Adam (right) stand together during a wedding at Adré refugee camp.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Sudanese refugees crossing into neighboring Chad at the border town of Adré.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Sudanese women and children register with Chadian authorities upon arrival in Adré.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Afrah Amdelkarim Hamid, 24, and her child, 2-year-old Mandoub, wait to see medical personnel at hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Aboutengue, a refugee site in eastern Chad a few hours from Adré. Aboutengue is home to some 50,000 refugees fleeing ongoing hostilities in Sudan.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Women cover themselves with shawls while a sandstorm ravages the Adrè refugee camp. Without proper sanitation and open defecation as a common practice, the wind raises and scatters waste across the camp.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Sudanese refugees wait for the WFP monthly food distribution in Adrè.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Alsadik Isshak Arbab, 45, relies on a cane as a result of injuries he sustained as he fled fighting in his native Sudan, taking refuge in neighboring Chad.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Two boys cross the rugged landscape around the Aboutengue refugee camp.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  People unload food from WFP trucks during the monthly distribution at Adrè.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Sudanese women from Geneina, who live in the Adrè refugee camp, pile bricks from a hoven for 1000XAF per day, equivalent to $1.60 USD, insufficient to feed a person.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Ahmat Abakar Bakhit, a 27-year-old Sudanese refugee, gets fitted for a prosthesis at a clinic run by the charity Handicap International in Abutengue refugee camp. Ahmat lost a leg in a bombing back in his native Sudan, and his injuries have complicated the already-difficult task of adapting to his new life as a refugee in Chad. But now, thanks to the crucial contribution of the European Union, he has received a prosthesis and is undergoing physical therapy aimed at teaching him how to adapt to the new limb.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Children play on a metal structure inside the Adrè refugee camp. UNICEF has reported that almost four million children in Sudan face acute malnutrition, and within refugee sites in Chad such as Adrè, budget cuts mean that residents have seen their food rations reduced.Nicolò Filippo Rosso  Naba Akbar Azien, an 8-year-old Sudanese girl whose family fled to neighboring Chad, poses in front of a building in Aboutengue. 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