The brutality of Sudan’s war is spilling across the border into Chad, where women and children fleeing the violence are arriving with deep trauma and almost no access to psychological support.

Eastern Chad has become a refuge for tens of thousands escaping the conflict that erupted in 2023 and has since grown into the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.

Millions have been uprooted, many of them carrying the physical and emotional scars of abuse, assault and the relentless terror of war.

Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris visited the Tulum refugee camp in eastern Chad, where a small group of Sudanese survivors has formed a support circle, one of the few spaces where victims can speak openly about what happened to them.

Basma and her sister are among them. Survivors of sexual violence, they are

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