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Adre, Chad – Islam’s* life was changed forever by an air strike in November 2023.

The young woman from el-Geneina, Sudan, had been preparing for her exams when a strike landed directly on her family’s home.

Now, sitting in one of the countless straw structures in a sprawling refugee camp in Adre just over the border in eastern Chad, Islam, 22, sobs as she recalls what happened to her.

After she and her family survived the air strike, she was kidnapped by members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group that has been fighting Sudan’s army for two years. They threatened to kill her family if she did not submit to their demands.

“If they had killed

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