Just outside the French army base in Abeche, a dusty city in eastern Chad, Mohamed Adam waits for his two toddlers. They had spots all over their faces so he took them to the French base ...

In the Aboutengue refugee camp in Chad, an hour’s drive from the border with Sudan, six women sit in the shade of a sycamore fig tree and tell us about the war. It’s very hot. Most of the ...