Sudanese Women Run Out of Hope As Conflict Drags On

Squatting on the sandy ground, a young girl is weaving grass stems into a roof. The tiny hut she is making is surrounded by tens of thousands of others like it, made hastily of sticks and leaves covered with tarps or plastic sacks.

This spontaneous settlement in Adré, a Chadian border town of 12,000 inhabitants, has become a makeshift home to over 100,000 Sudanese refugees. Almost 90% are women and children who crossed the border on foot, fleeing brutal violence that submerged their native Darfur…