Goz Amer — About 2,500 new Sudanese refugees at camp Goz Amer in eastern Chad are living poor humanitarian conditions without health or medical services, a shortage of food and plastic sheets, a sheikh of the camp has told Radio Dabanga.

Sheikh Ahmed War, says that the new refugees, who originally fled the tribal conflict between the Salamat and Misseriya, have arrived at the camp from the Chadian town of Tissi.

Sheikh War explained that the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) initially provided them with some plastic sheets upon their arrival at the camp, but these have become torn due to heavy rains and wind.

"Some of them are now living without shelter," he said, calling on the UNHCR "to expedite meeting the needs of the new refugees in terms of medicine and health services, to increase their rations of food and plastic sheets and provide educational services".