UNHCR urges global community to support Sudanese refugees in Chad

The UN’s refugee agency has issued an urgent call for greater international assistance as thousands of people, bearing accounts of renewed trauma and violence, continue to stream out of Sudan’s Darfur region into an overstretched Chad.

UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements made the appeal on Thursday after meeting with refugees in Farchana, Chad, who had escaped the city of el-Fasher.

She described hearing harrowing stories…