{"id":226971,"date":"2026-03-15T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-chad-sudan-border-insecurity-keeps-it-closed-blocking-a-critical-lifeline\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:47:16","slug":"sudan-the-chad-sudan-border-insecurity-keeps-it-closed-blocking-a-critical-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-chad-sudan-border-insecurity-keeps-it-closed-blocking-a-critical-lifeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: The Chad-Sudan Border &#8211; Insecurity Keeps It Closed, Blocking a Critical Lifeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"90\">Sudanese refugees in Adr\u00e9, the largest refugee settlement based in Chad along the Sudan-Chad border, were cautiously optimistic after authorities announced the temporary opening of the road linking the two countries. &#8220;Even today, early in the morning, we were told that the road had reopened,&#8221; said Mariam Abdel-Karim Adam, a trader and refugee based in Adr\u00e9. &#8220;People began to move their goods. I also went early in the morning to see the situation myself and found that people had already started&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudanese refugees in Adr\u00e9, the largest refugee settlement based in Chad along the Sudan-Chad border, were cautiously optimistic after authorities announced the temporary opening of the road linking the two countries. &#8220;Even today, early in the morning, we were told that the road had reopened,&#8221; said Mariam Abdel-Karim Adam, a trader and refugee based in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":226972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,13466,1900,43073,6851,7129,2134,14266,257,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-226971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blocking","tag-border","tag-chadsudan","tag-closed","tag-critical","tag-insecurity","tag-lifeline","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}