ADRE, Chad -- Fatima Omas Abdullah wakes up every morning with aches and pains from sleeping on bare ground for almost two ...

Fatima Omas Abdullah wakes up every morning with aches and pains from sleeping on bare ground for almost two years. She did ...

The U.S.-backed aid system that has kept hundreds of thousands of people alive on the edge of Sudan's civil war, one of the ...

ADRE, Chad — Fatima Omas Abdullah wakes up every morning with aches and pains from sleeping on bare ground for almost two years. She did not expect Sudan's civil war to displace her for so long ...

Sudan's civil war has overwhelmed a border town in neighboring Chad. Nearly a quarter-million refugees have arrived in Adre and the humanitarian frontline on the edge of one of the world’s most ...

She did not expect Sudan’s civil war to displace her for so long into neighboring Chad. “There is nothing here,” she said, crying and shaking the straw door of her makeshift home.

Before the civil war, Adre was a town of about 40,000. As Sudanese began to arrive, sympathetic residents with longtime cross-border ties offered them land.