Sudan Crisis Guide - What You Need To Know

This guide breaks down what’s happening in Sudan and why it matters. We update it monthly so you can stay informed. The latest update was on July 31, 2026.

Discover ways to help at the bottom of this page.

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The War In Sudan

Sudan is a beautiful country with a rich history in northeast Africa, just south of Egypt along the Red Sea. With over 50 million people and deep diversity, Sudan sits at the crossroads of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. It’s also the third-largest country on the continent.

A brutal war broke out in Khartoum on April 15, 2023 between:

• Sudan Armed Forces (SAF): The country’s official military, including the army, air force, and navy.

• Rapid Support Forces (RSF): A paramilitary group formed by a previous dictatorship.

Both sides failed to eliminate each other’s leadership and violence spiraled into a nationwide crisis. Police units, intelligence services, local militias, and some rebel groups from past conflicts have taken sides. The RSF is also recruiting foreign mercenaries from across the Sahel and receiving weaponry from the United Arab Emirates.

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Why Are Sudan’s Warring Factions Fighting?

The military and RSF were once allies. That began to change in October 2021 after they overthrow a civilian-led reform government. Tensions rose rapidly between both sides after the coup. RSF commander Mohamed “Hemeti” Dagalo sees himself as Sudan’s next dictator, while SAF generals believe they are the rightful rulers. It’s important to note that many Sudanese citizens want neither in charge. A majority want a democratic, civilian government. There are also deep ethnic divisions driving the violence:

• SAF is led mostly by elite Nile Valley Arab officers, some of Sudan’s most privileged groups. While SAF is ethnically mixed at the ground level, Arab supremacy and racism persist in its ranks. Army units have carried out ethnically targeted attacks on civilians.

• RSF is dominated by Arab tribes from Darfur. Many commanders and fighters hold a violent and racist ideology that calls for the ethnic cleansing of Darfur’s African communities and subjugation of all other Sudanese Arabs.

This map shows approximate areas of control in Sudan:

• Pink: Sudan Armed Forces and Joint Forces allies

• Green: Rapid Support Forces and militia allies

• Purple: SLM, a Darfuri rebel group from previous wars that is neutral in the conflict

• Yellow: SPLM-N, indigenous rebel group in the Nuba Mountains from previous wars

• Orange: RSF and SPLM-N have a fragile alliance with troops that overlap in some areas.

In mid-2025, SAF launched major offensives into central and south-central Sudan, recapturing the capital city of Khartoum and expanding their control to El-Obied. The RSF has since ground the army’s advance to a halt in North Kordofan, captured the last SAF stronghold in West Kordofan, and has pushed into parts of South Kordofan.

SAF’s long supply lines and ongoing fuel shortages has weakened the army’s ability to continue advancing, while the RSF is now operating closer to their main bases with tighter supply lines. Neither side is capable of securing an outright victory. Meanwhile, it’s the Sudanese people —trapped between bombs, drone strikes, food blockades, and targeted brutality— who continue to suffer most.

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Map: Click or tap to expand. L.r. stands for “local resistance” and these areas are controlled by neither the army nor RSF. Pins mark locations of the most recent heaviest fighting. (source)

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Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis: The World’s Largest Emergency

It’s barely in the news, but Sudan is collapsing before the world’s eyes. Khartoum’s neighborhoods lie in ruins. In the oppressed western Darfur region, entire communities have been annihilated by the RSF. Villages are burning, crops are rotting in the fields, and families are fleeing with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

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Maps: The latest famine tracking and projections from The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. (source)

This armed conflict is just as much a war on the Sudanese people as it is between rival generals.The RSF is targeting ethnic African minorities for extermination and SAF is blocking aid access to large swaths of the country. War crimes are being committed en masse by both sides. The human toll is staggering:

• No one knows the death toll, but 270,000+ people have likely been killed by violence, starvation, and disease. This is a moderate estimate based on the very little data that is available and may be a severe undercount.

• 33.7 million Sudanese need humanitarian aid, while an estimated 2.5 million people are living in emergency or famine conditions.

• Nearly 9 million people have fled their homes inside Sudan, with another 4 million refugees leaving the country.

• More than 65% of the country’s main hospitals are closed or destroyed, with many of the ones still functioning at risk of closure from shortages of medical staff, supplies, safe water, and electricity. Disease outbreaks are spreading quickly, too.

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What Are World Leaders Doing to End the War in Sudan?

World leaders have largely turned a blind eye as Sudan burns. A smattering of diplomatic efforts have failed to bring about a lasting ceasefire. International aid is only 40% funded for all of 2026, leaving millions of Sudanese facing hunger and disease. Even in refugee camps outside of Sudan, where aid is much easier to deliver, hunger and preventable illness is rampant due to this lack of attention. Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is fueling the violence and stretching out the war by supplying weapons, mercenaries, and other resources to the RSF.

Despite these challenges, ordinary Sudanese are still finding ways to help each other. The international community can and should be doing far more to support Sudanese-led initiatives and prevent a total collapse into failed statehood.

How You Can Help

Operation Broken Silence is dedicated to Sudanese communities, cultivating resilience and driving meaningful change through crowdfunded programs. In July and with your help, we sent $13,400 to Sudanese heroes, which is being used to deliver emergency food, medicine, and school supplies and to provide counseling services. Here’s how you can join us.

Our global event turns everyday runs, bike rides, and walks into lifesaving support. Every dollar you raise helps fund Sudanese heroes who are providing emergency aid, healthcare, and education to their people. We also have an option where you can skip the exercise and just fundraise. And the best part? Donations to your fundraising page will be matched!

Make checks payable to Operation Broken Silence and mail to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177. You can also donate stock or crypto. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law.

New Sudan legislation introduced in Congress

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In early June, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chris Coons (D-Del.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) introduced the Preventing External Aggression and Conflict Escalation (PEACE) in Sudan Act of 2026. From Senator Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

“The war in Sudan is a humanitarian catastrophe, a source of instability in Africa, and a threat to U.S. national security. We cannot allow Sudan to continue devolving into chaos, causing uncontrolled migration, human suffering, and serving as a haven for terrorists. This bill is a bipartisan effort to provide the Trump Administration with additional tools to raise the costs of this war for the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and their proxies to bring this war to an end.”

According to the Senators, this legislation:

1. Calls on the Secretary of State to assess whether armed actors in Sudan meet the criteria for designation as Specially Designated Global Terrorists;

2. Provides the Administration with an updated and expanded discretionary sanctions regime;

3. Provides guardrails on the types of non-lifesaving foreign assistance the U.S. can provide— directly or through multilateral institutions—to Sudan;

4. Requires an update to the Sudan Business advisory to provide U.S. businesses with additional information about the risks of doing business in Sudan and the supply chains of Sudanese natural resources;

5. Extends the authorization for a U.S. special envoy for Sudan to bolster dedicated U.S. diplomatic resources related to addressing the war;

6. Provides for greater information sharing with Congress to address the Sudan conflict by requiring the State Department to submit regular reports detailing:

   1. the activities of foreign governments and non-state armed groups supporting the warring parties;

   2. atrocities being committed; and

   3. information on countries holding assets for the warring parties

7. And encourages the State Department to explore opportunities to build a stronger international coalition focused on ending the conflict in Sudan.

Earlier today, the bill was placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders and is now waiting for full Senate floor consideration. We encourage you to call your Senators’ offices today and ask them to support this legislation. Contact information can be found here.

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Another Way To Help

Our free global event turns everyday runs, bike rides, and walks into lifesaving support. Every mile you put in and dollar you raise helps fund emergency aid and long-term education programs led by Sudanese heroes. Not a fan of fitness? We have an option where you can skip the moving and just fundraise. Every dollar raised still makes a difference. Donations are being matched for a limited time!

Checks can be made payable to Operation Broken Silence and mailed to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177-0900. You can also donate stock or crypto. Operation Broken Silence a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our EIN is 80-0671198. Donations are tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law.

What Are Mass Atrocity Crimes?

This is a brief article providing a contextual background for understanding the issues Operation Broken Silence works on. It is part of our resource list for students, teachers, and the curious and was last updated July 2026.

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Mass Atrocities & Mass Killing

The term mass atrocities refers to large-scale, systematic violence against civilian populations. The term mass killing is generally used to refer to the deliberate actions of armed groups — including but not limited to state security forces, rebel armies, and other militias — that result in the deaths of at least 1,000 noncombatant civilians targeted as part of a specific group over a 12-month period.

Neither term has a former legal definition. Both are frequently used as an overarching, collective way to speak about other definitions found in this article and to draw attention to larger-scale conflicts and incidents in which the lives of civilians are at grave risk.

Genocide

Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. These acts fall into five categories:

1. Killing members of the group

2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part

4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Genocide differs from other crimes because it must be motivated by a specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, racial, ethnical, or religious group. Some of the acts involved in genocide, such as killing or sexual violence, can also constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity; however, for these acts to constitute genocide, they must be committed with the intent to destroy.

Ethnic Cleansing

The term ethnic cleansing refers to the forced removal of an ethnic group from a specific geographic area. A United Nations Commission of Experts investigating mass atrocity crimes in the former Yugoslavia defined it as “rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area.”

Similar to the terms mass atrocities and mass killing, it is important to note that ethnic cleansing is not recognized as a standalone crime under international law. The practice of ethnic cleansing may constitute genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes though.

Left: The aftermath of an attack in the village of Masteri in west Darfur on July 25, 2020 (Mustafa Younes via AP). Right: The aftermath of a village being bombed in the Nuba Mountains in 2012 (Operation Broken Silence).

Crimes Against Humanity

Crimes against humanity are defined in Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as “any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:

• Murder;

• Extermination;

• Enslavement;

• Deportation or forcible transfer of population;

• Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;

• Torture;

• Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;

• Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;

• Enforced disappearance of persons;

• The crime of apartheid;

• Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.

In order for any of the above acts to constitute crimes against humanity, two elements must be met: the act committed against a civilian population (as opposed to soldiers or other non-civilian populations), and the act must be part of a widespread or systematic attack (not singular violations). Crimes against humanity are distinguished from “ordinary” crimes by being widespread or systematic, and by the targeting of civilians. Because crimes against humanity can be committed in the context of an armed conflict, it is possible for the same act to constitute both a crime against humanity and a war crime.

War Crimes

War crimes are defined in Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:

• Wilful killing;

• Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;

• Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;

• Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;

• Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;

• Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial;

• Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;

• Taking of hostages. 

Article 8 continues to define additional crimes that occur in the context of international and internal armed conflicts, such as killing or wounding already-surrendered enemy combatants, pillaging, and more.

War crimes, by definition, can only be committed in the context of an armed conflict. These crimes involve grave breaches of the laws of war, committed against people or entities who are protected under those laws (such as civilians and their property) and/or the use of prohibited methods or means of warfare. The acts that can constitute war crimes range from willful killing to pillaging, sexual violence, and declaring that there will be “no mercy” in a military operation.

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From Learning To Action

Our free global event turns everyday runs, bike rides, and walks into lifesaving support. Every mile you put in and dollar you raise helps fund emergency aid, healthcare, and education programs led by Sudanese heroes. We also have an option where you can skip the exercise and just fundraise. Every dollar raised makes a difference.

Checks can be made payable to Operation Broken Silence and mailed to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177-0900. You can also donate stock or crypto. Operation Broken Silence a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law. Our EIN is 80-0671198.

Adré Children’s Feeding Program and Clinic Update - May 2026

Program Background

When war erupted in Sudan in April 2023, Darfur quickly became the epicenter of some of the conflict’s worst atrocities. What began as a power struggle between Sudan’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) spiraled into a brutal, targeted campaign of violence. The largely Arab RSF launched a hate-driven assault on Darfur’s historic ethnic African communities, including the Zaghawa, Fur, and Masalit people groups.

Map by Operation Broken Silence

Parts of Darfur are in famine. Refugees crossing the border into Adré, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and thousand-yard stares, tell stories of mass killings and starvation. Darfur has descended into ethnic cleansing, widespread rape, and total lawlessness under RSF occupation. Markets, farms, banks, and aid warehouses have been looted or destroyed.

In response, Operation Broken Silence is helping to support local heroes as they deliver emergency food and medical care to some of the most vulnerable refugee communities on the Sudan/Chad border. We’re supporting trusted Sudanese community leaders in two key areas:

• The Adré refugee camps

• The Tiné area

Below are important updates from the For You Children’s Feeding Center and Healthcare Clinic in Adré—both of which are refugee-led and privately funded by people like you.

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May 2026 Overview

In May 2026, temperatures continued to rise steadily; however, the overall health situation in the Sudanese refugee camps in eastern Chad remained stable. Neither our clinic nor other health facilities recorded any new cases of the outbreaks that had spread in previous months.

There has been an increase in fire incidents of unknown origin across several refugee camps, resulting in significant loss of property and lives. Additionally, some camps experienced water shortages, forcing women and children to walk long distances or spend long hours in queues under extreme heat to obtain water.

Eastern Chad has become a major commercial hub due to cross-border trade between western Sudan and Chad. The entire region is under Rapid Support Forces (RSF) control and is administratively cut off from northern Sudan. This situation has negatively impacted refugees, as living and healthcare costs have sharply increased.

In mid-May 2026, a delegation from the Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA) visited the Sudanese refugee camps in eastern Chad to assess the general situation, including the health conditions. The delegation visited the For You Initiative Clinic and provided a substantial quantity of IV fluids and some medications that could help alleviate suffering and increase daily patient intake.

The delegation recommended signing a Memorandum of Understanding between SAPA and the For You Initiative, whereby SAPA would support the clinic with medications, consumables, and partial coverage of staff incentives for three months, renewable. However, some arrangements within the agreement are still pending finalization.

Since the beginning of May, due to construction activities carried out by the landowners, the clinic lost one-third of its space. This resulted in the displacement of the Emergency–Short Stay Unit and the Obstetrics & Gynecology room, which had to be relocated to another room. Consequently, the number of consultation rooms decreased, and the clinic’s overall space became significantly constrained. The team was unable to organize Eid al-Adha prayers inside the clinic’s tent this year, but they contributed to organizing the prayer with the refugee community in another location.

Construction activities also damaged the emergency unit, two rooms, and the patient waiting shade. This forced us to dismantle them to facilitate construction and later rebuild them, incurring unexpected costs that affected the monthly operational budget.

Departmental Activities

Total patient visits: 1,354 - Women: 53.5% Children: 22.5% Men: 24%

Most common illnesses: Pelvic inflammatory diseases among women, urinary tract infections, gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases, with an increase in malaria cases.

1. General Medical Consultation: 583

2. Chronic Diseases Clinic: 211

3. Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinic: 49

4. Ophthalmology Clinic: 90

5. Dental Clinic: 59

6. Emergency & Short-Stay Department: 0

7. Nursing & Minor Department: 231

8. Laboratory Department: 734 patients, 1,572 tests

9. Awareness & Counseling Department:

   • Individual sessions: 3

   • Group sessions: 20

   • Topics included: complications of hypertension and diabetes, heart diseases, kidney failure, vascular problems and strokes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, heatstroke, and eye diseases.

10. Training Department: Conducted a general workshop on mental distraction and time management and continued supervising trainees across departments.

11. Feeding Center: Provided approximately 3,000 meals to children, staff, and caregivers. Due to construction near the center, staff were unable to provide meals consistently and regularly.

12. Recommended Needs:

    • Improve incentives and increase support for breakfast meals to retain staff.

    • Construct an Emergency–Short Stay Unit before the rainy season, when diseases —especially malaria— significantly increase.

    • Consider establishing an annual maintenance budget for the clinic and ensure the availability of malaria medications before the rainy season in July.

With the rainy season approaching and disease rates rising, commercial health centers often seek to recruit staff with attractive incentives. Therefore, we emphasize the importance of improving volunteer incentives and enhancing the work environment to retain them, especially given the shortage of available medical personnel—such as doctors and laboratory technicians—in Adré,

Current conditions in Adré

The situation Sudanese refugees face in eastern Chad is a protracted humanitarian emergency. People fleeing ethnic cleansing and famine face hunger and disease after arriving at one of the 30+ informal border crossings, many having walked for days carrying only what they could, including mothers and children weakened by hunger and trauma. The scale of this crisis is staggering:

• The number of Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad has surged to almost 933,000 people.

• 87% of those registered are women and children, of which 25% are adult women.

• Over 227,000 refugees are currently settled in the Adré area, more than five times the town’s original population.

• 13% have registered refugees specific needs, including people with disabilities, single parents, or those who are at-risk.

• Source: UNHCR CHAD | CORE Sudan Emergency Situation (June 2026)

These heroes need your help

The needs in Adré are urgent and growing every week. Right now, it takes a minimum of $8,500 each month to keep the For You Child Feeding Center & Clinic running at minimal capacity. This covers everything from medical supplies and health awareness to hot meals for vulnerable children to basic medication for patients that couldn’t afford it otherwise.

These programs can expand with even more funding. Thousands are still waiting for care. Countless children go to bed hungry every night. You can help change that. In a place where hope is in short supply, your generosity means more than you can imagine.

Checks can be made payable to Operation Broken Silence with Adré written in the memo line and mailed to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177-0900. You can also donate stock while adding a note specifying your gift is for Adré.

Thank you for taking the time to receive this update. Please support us today.

Adré Children’s Feeding Program and Clinic Update - April 2026

Program Background

When war erupted in Sudan in April 2023, Darfur quickly became the epicenter of some of the conflict’s worst atrocities. What began as a power struggle between Sudan’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) spiraled into a brutal, targeted campaign of violence. The largely Arab RSF launched a hate-driven assault on Darfur’s historic ethnic African communities, including the Zaghawa, Fur, and Masalit people groups.

Map by Operation Broken Silence

Parts of Darfur are in famine. Refugees crossing the border into Adré, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and thousand-yard stares, tell stories of mass killings and starvation. Darfur has descended into ethnic cleansing, widespread rape, and total lawlessness under RSF occupation. Markets, farms, banks, and aid warehouses have been looted or destroyed.

In response, Operation Broken Silence is helping to support local heroes as they deliver emergency food and medical care to some of the most vulnerable refugee communities on the Sudan/Chad border. We’re supporting trusted Sudanese community leaders in two key areas:

• The Adré refugee camps

• The Tiné area

Below are important updates from the For You Children’s Feeding Center and Healthcare Clinic in Adré—both of which are refugee-led and privately funded by people like you.

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April 2026 Overview

At the end of March 2026, the region witnessed an unusually sharp increase in temperatures, accompanied by outbreaks of measles and meningitis. Due to our limited technical capacity and the high risk of operating during contagious epidemics, we were compelled to close the clinic for 10 days as a precautionary measure.

Following vaccination campaigns carried out by health authorities and humanitarian organizations, operations resumed smoothly. Despite a slight drop in temperatures, the overall health situation in April remained stable across eastern Chad, with a noticeable decline in the previously high mortality rates. Compared to March, the general health situation improved; however, two suspected meningitis cases were recorded in our clinic at the end of April. Additionally, there was a rise in respiratory infections and common colds due to weather fluctuations, dust, and sandstorms.

Eastern Chad has become a major commercial hub due to cross-border trade between western Sudan and Chad. The entire region is under Rapid Support Forces (RSF) control and is administratively cut off from northern Sudan. This situation has negatively impacted refugees, as living and healthcare costs have sharply increased:

• Shortage of medical personnel, particularly laboratory staff and physicians.

• Increased operational costs due to high patient turnout, forcing us to reduce the number of patients received daily.

• Interruption of the clinic’s water supply as a result of high consumption by refugees at nearby stations.

• Delays from landowners in preparing construction materials needed to begin building a perimeter wall around the clinic.

• With rising prices in Chad and the depreciation of the US dollar relative to our monthly operational budget, we had no option but to reduce expenditures across all budget lines. This has directly affected the daily patient turnout at both the clinic and the feeding center.

Departmental Activities

Total patient visits: 1,772 - Women: 53% Children: 24% Men: 23%

Total disease cases: 2,738

Most common illnesses: Respiratory diseases, urinary tract infections (schistosomiasis + syphilis), gastrointestinal diseases, three hepatitis B cases, and a slight increase in malaria.

1. General Medical Consultation: 616

2. Chronic Diseases Clinic: 370

3. Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinic: 81

4. Ophthalmology Clinic: 120

5. Dental Clinic: 60

6. Emergency & Short-Stay Department: 32

7. Nursing & Minor Department: 244

8. Laboratory Department: 1,079 patients, 2,343 tests

9. Awareness & Counseling Department:

   • Individual sessions: 16

   • Group sessions: 26

   • Topics included: measles, meningitis, childhood illnesses, polycystic ovary syndrome, common colds, and guidance on how to file complaints during medical visits.

10. Training Department: Only trainee follow-up was conducted; no group training sessions were held due to epidemic conditions and the department supervisor’s circumstances.

11. Feeding Center: Approximately 3,500 meals provided to children, staff, patients.

Current conditions in Adré

The situation Sudanese refugees face in eastern Chad is a protracted humanitarian emergency. People fleeing ethnic cleansing and famine face hunger and disease after arriving at one of the 30+ informal border crossings, many having walked for days carrying only what they could, including mothers and children weakened by hunger and trauma. The scale of this crisis is staggering:

• The number of Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad has surged to almost 918,000 people.

• 87% of those registered are women and children, of which 25% are adult women.

• Over 235,000 refugees are currently settled in the Adré area, more than five times the town’s original population.

• 13% have registered refugees specific needs, including people with disabilities, single parents, or those who are at-risk.

• Source: UNHCR CHAD | CORE Sudan Emergency Situation (March 2026)

These heroes need your help

The needs in Adré are urgent and growing every week. Right now, it takes a minimum of $8,500 each month to keep the For You Child Feeding Center & Clinic running at minimal capacity. This covers everything from medical supplies and health awareness to hot meals for vulnerable children to basic medication for patients that couldn’t afford it otherwise.

These programs can expand with even more funding. Thousands are still waiting for care. Countless children go to bed hungry every night. You can help change that. In a place where hope is in short supply, your generosity means more than you can imagine.

Checks can be made payable to Operation Broken Silence with Adré written in the memo line and mailed to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177-0900. You can also donate stock and cryptocurrency while adding a note specifying your gift is for Adré.

Thank you for taking the time to receive this update. Please support us today.

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• When war erupted in Sudan in April 2023, Darfur quickly became the epicenter of some of the conflict’s worst atrocities, sparking off a protracted humanitarian emergency for refugees in eastern Chad. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/adre-childrens-feeding-program-and-clinic-update-april-2026

• Over 235,000 refugees are currently settled in the Adré area. Most are women and children. A small clinic and feeding center are saving lives, but they need your help to keep going. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/adre-childrens-feeding-program-and-clinic-update-april-2026

• The small clinic in Adré continues saving and changing lives. Each week, the dedicated team works with compassion to deliver lifesaving care to Sudanese refugees, despite limited resources and growing demand. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/adre-childrens-feeding-program-and-clinic-update-april-2026

• What does hope look like in a refugee camp? It looks like a child receiving her only hot meal of the day. A mother being treated for malaria. A community standing together. Help us keep hope alive. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/adre-childrens-feeding-program-and-clinic-update-april-2026

Joint letter to Members of Congress concerning the crisis in Sudan

Background image from Canva Pro. Foreground image from Sudanese social media.

Today marks three years since the devastating war between regime forces began consuming Sudan. Operation Broken Silence is joining 68 other humanitarian organizations, human rights groups, religious bodies, and experts in urging additional Congressional action.

While the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and their allied militias continue to fight each other for control of Sudan, nearly 14 million Sudanese have been displaced and more than half the population is in need of humanitarian assistance, including hundreds of thousands facing famine.

The United Nations designated Sudan as the world’s largest humanitarian, hunger and displacement crisis, and yet, even with this designation, Sudan fails to receive the attention and resources necessary to end the conflict, to protect and provide for civilians, and to support the people’s struggle for freedom, peace and justice.

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Another Way To Help

Our free global event turns everyday runs, bike rides, and walks into lifesaving support. Every mile you put in and dollar you raise helps fund emergency aid and long-term education programs led by Sudanese heroes. Not a fan of fitness? We have an option where you can skip the moving and just fundraise. Every dollar raised still makes a difference. Donations are being matched for a limited time!

Checks can be made payable to Operation Broken Silence and mailed to PO Box 770900 Memphis, TN 38177-0900. You can also donate stock or crypto. Operation Broken Silence a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our EIN is 80-0671198. Donations are tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law.

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Short statements you can share online and with others. Simply copy and paste.

• Today marks three years since the devastating war between regime forces began consuming Sudan. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/joint-letter-to-members-of-congress-concerning-the-crisis-in-sudan

• Operation Broken Silence is joining 68 other humanitarian organizations, human rights groups, religious bodies, and experts in urging additional Congressional action. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/joint-letter-to-members-of-congress-concerning-the-crisis-in-sudan

• While the army, Rapid Support Forces, and their allied militias fight for control of Sudan, nearly 14 million Sudanese have been displaced and more than half the population is in need of humanitarian assistance. https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/joint-letter-to-members-of-congress-concerning-the-crisis-in-sudan

• Operation Broken Silence is dedicated to Sudanese communities, cultivating resilience and driving meaningful change through crowdfunded programs. Will you join us? https://operationbrokensilence.org/blog/joint-letter-to-members-of-congress-concerning-the-crisis-in-sudan