“With the chaos in Khartoum, I stopped getting news from my family. I’ve hardly slept for the past four months,” said Khadidja,* a 37-year-old from Sudan who has been living in Zabout refugee camp since the end of April. Khadidja was able to make calls thanks to the Red Cross teams. “I finally managed to get in touch with my younger brother who’s in Khartoum with my parents. He told me that my other brother fled for Egypt. His son is here with me, and at last I’ve been able to tell him that his father is fine.”
These successes include the dozens of wounded people in Chad who have been able to reconnect with their families. Patients in health facilities in Adré, Abéché and N’Djamena have made a total of 56 phone calls. Red Cross teams have also registered more than 20 non-accompanied minors as part of the process to find their fam