More than 55,000 Sudanese refugees flee to Chad as UN calls for funding

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Sep 25, 2026 · 408 words · By Daniel Khalili-Tari

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More than 55,000 Sudanese refugees flee to Chad as UN calls for funding UN refugee agency says 400 people a day, about 20 times the previous daily rate, now cross from Sudan into eastern Chad.

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What happened

More than 55,000 Sudanese refugees flee to Chad as UN calls for funding UN refugee agency says 400 people a day, about 20 times the previous daily rate, now cross from Sudan into eastern Chad.

Why it matters

More than 55,000 Sudanese refugees have fled to neighbouring Chad this year, compounding a humanitarian crisis that will only deteriorate further unless there is a significant increase in funding, the United Nations has warned.

Common ground

The number of Sudanese people arriving in eastern Chad has “accelerated sharply” over the past week and is outpacing the available support, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “in excess of 11 million Sudanese people have been displaced”

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Four independent cross-references (Deutsche Welle, France24 x2, The Hindu) all report that more than 11 million people have been displaced in Sudan.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the Sudanese civil war in 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Sudanese_civil…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sudanese Arabs (Arabic: عرب سودانيون, romanized: ʿarab sūdāniyyūn) are the inhabitants of Sudan who identify as Arabs and speak Arabic as their mother tongue. Sudanese Arabs make up 70% of the popula…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_Arabs

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since April 2023, there has been a civil war in Sudan between the two main factions of the country's military government. The conflict involves the internationally recognized government of Sudan led b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023–prese…

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Claim 2: “The UN says it has so far received only 20 percent of the $1.6bn needed to fund response efforts.”

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The specific figure of 20% of $1.6bn is mentioned in one web search result (Yahoo News Canada), but other results discuss different pledge amounts (e.g., €1.5 billion) without confirming the 20% funding gap.

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web search NEUTRAL — The initiative builds upon a series of ministerial conferences focused on Sudan. These meetings, held in Paris, London, and Berlin, represent a concerted effort by a coalition of international actors …
https://foreignpolicywatchdog.com/united-kingdom/uk-minister…

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web search NEUTRAL — Nations",[20] and the next day the representatives of twenty-two other nations added their signatures. During the war, the United Nations became the official term for the Allies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations

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web search NEUTRAL — International donors have pledged about €1.5 billion for Sudan at an meeting held in Berlin to mark three years of war in the country that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.
https://allafrica.com/stories/202604160271.html

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Claim 3: “more than 3.5 million Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers have fled to nearby countries”

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Two separate web search results confirm the figure of more than 3.5 million Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers fleeing to nearby countries, citing UNHCR.

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web search NEUTRAL — More than 3.5 million Sudanese refugees and asylum-seekers have fled to countries across the region, according to UNHCR. The agency said only 18% of the $1.6 billion required for the regional refugee …
https://www.trtworld.com/article/d81b44daecc4

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web search NEUTRAL — Approximately 6.4 million people in Sudan are internally displaced, while more than 3.5 million Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers have fled to nearby countries.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/more-55-000-sudane…

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web search NEUTRAL — Most Sudanese refugees who have managed to flee since the war began have relocated to neighboring countries, including Egypt, Chad, South Sudan, and Ethiopia. The largest number of these have traveled…
https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-briefs/no-mode…

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Claim 4: “the transit centre in Chad’s Tine is under severe pressure and currently hosts more than 4,300 people”

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The evidence provided for this claim is either completely irrelevant (pornographic sites) or general information about the town of Tine, with no mention of the transit center's population or pressure.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tinè, alsoTiné or Tina, is a town in the Wadi Fira region of eastern Chad, located near the Chad–Sudan border. The town is approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) southeast of Iriba by air. It contains a …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinè

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tine may refer to: Tine (structural), a 'prong' on a fork or similar implement, or any similar structure Tine (company), the biggest dairy producer in Norway Tine (film), a 1964 Danish film Tine, Iran…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tine

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad

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Claim 5: “About 31,000 families lack adequate shelter”

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One source (Yahoo News Canada) mentions 31,000 families lacking shelter, while another source (NRC) mentions 80,000 families have no shelter.

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web search NEUTRAL — Some 80,000 families have no shelter. Seven in ten refugee families in Chad have reduced or skipped meals in the past month, according to a recent survey by international aid organisation the Norwegia…
https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/sudan-refugees-face-temperatu…

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web search NEUTRAL — About 31,000 families lack adequate shelter, and most refugees are living on less than half of the minimum amount of water needed daily. The UN says it has so far received only 20 percent of the $1.6b…
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/more-55-000-sudanese-refugees-1606…

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web search NEUTRAL — Hundreds of families fleeing conflict in Sudan’s southeastern Blue Nile State have arrived in the Al Rusairis region after travelling for days on foot. They face dire humanitarian conditions, with sev…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n5JL3XUtZs

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Claim 6: “The number of refugees entering via Chad’s border areas of Adre and Tine has risen to 400 people a day, about 20 times the daily rate of previous months”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant links (Daily Mail, Dailymotion) or general geographical information about Chad and Tine, but does not mention the specific daily arrival rate of 400 people or the 20x increase.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the Sudanese civil war in 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Sudanese_civil…

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Claim 7: “Sudan has been engulfed in a civil war since April 2023, when a power struggle between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, turned violent.”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms the start of the civil war in April 2023 between the SAF led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman al-Burhan (born 11 July 1960) is a Sudanese military officer who has been the leader of Sudan since 2019. Following the Sudanese Revolution in April 2019, he was han…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_al-Burhan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Battle of Khartoum was a major strategic battle for control of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, with fighting in and around the city between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and the Sud…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khartoum_(2023–2025)

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Claim 8: “More than 55,000 Sudanese refugees have fled to neighbouring Chad this year”

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Multiple web search results confirm that more than 55,000 Sudanese refugees have crossed into eastern Chad since the start of the year, citing the United Nations.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — By 2025, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated that there are 1,330,950 Sudanese refugees in Chad. The majority of them left Sudan escaping from the violence of the ongoi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_refugees_in_Chad

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the Sudanese civil war in 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Sudanese_civil…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Chadian Civil War of 2005–2010 began on 18 December 2005. Since its independence from France in 1960, Chad has been swamped by civil wars between the Arab-Muslims of the north and the Sub-Saharan-…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadian_Civil_War_(2005–2010)

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Claim 9: “More than 14,100 Sudanese refugees arrived on the continent [Europe] last year, a 245 percent increase compared with 2024.”

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No evidence was found after searching for this specific claim regarding refugees arriving in Europe.

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Claim 10: “Approximately 6.4 million people in Sudan are internally displaced”

DISPUTED

Different sources provide conflicting numbers for internal displacement: one source mentions 'more than 6 million', another mentions 'nearly 7.1 million', and another mentions 'approximately 6.4 million'.

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web search NEUTRAL — More than 6 million people are now internally displaced within Sudan, and a further 1.4 million people have fled Sudan -- mostly to neighbouring countries such as Chad, Egypt and South Sudan.
https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/families-fleeing-sudan-vi…

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web search NEUTRAL — Nearly 7.1 million people are internally displaced within Sudan, of that 3.8 million are newly displaced as a result of the violence that erupted mid-April between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and t…
https://mena.iom.int/news/internal-displacement-sudan-nearly…

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web search NEUTRAL — What does being internally displaced mean? An internally displaced person has been forced to run from their home with little to no belongings to seek shelter elsewhere in the same country.
https://1-e8259.azureedge.net/news/2024/6/3/the-worlds-negle…

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