Wednesday, November 4, 2026 • Chad: Sudanese refugees in Tuloum camp in eastern Chad protested on Tuesday against their classification into four categories that determine the level of their eligibility for humanitarian aid, demanding the abolition of the classification or the organisation of their voluntary return, and the spokesperson for the new refugees, Fatima Fadl, said the classification included arrivals who had not been in the camp for one year, and according to the classification the first category receives monthly aid, the second receives rations every three months, while the third receives production inputs, while the fourth category was deprived of aid (Source: Radio Dabanga via Sudana) • Egypt and voluntary return: The Egyptian government agreed to continue providing facilities for Sudanese citizens wishing to return voluntarily to Sudan, via land transport and railways, after Egyptian Minister of Transport Kamel El-Wazir approved the request of his Sudanese counterpart Seif El-Nasr El-Tijani to continue facilitating the procedures for the return of Sudanese to their country, and the talks, which were held on the sidelines of the meetings of Arab transport ministers, addressed the progress of work at the Wadi Halfa port quay and the railway linkage projects between the two countries and ways to revitalise the Nile Valley Authority for River Navigation (Source: Sudan Today) • Chad and refugee women's initiatives: In a report published by the Global Survivors Fund, six Sudanese organisations led by survivors run safe spaces for women and girls who are survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in the Adre, Metchi and Aboutengue camps in eastern Chad, and each space is run by teams of Sudanese social workers, psychologists and community mobilisers who themselves fled to the camps, and the spaces provide psychosocial support, specialised medical care and information about rights, at a time when about one million Sudanese have fled to Chad since the start of the war, 80% of them women and children according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Source: Global Survivors Fund)
— Editorial Team
