TINE, Chad: Faouzi Abdulbagi Mahammat Anour awoke in Tine, Chad, with a charred face and a missing right eye after being attacked by a drone on the Sudanese border. The incident occurred on the morning of June 10, while the 18-year-old was grazing his family’s livestock northeast of Sudan’s twin town of Tina, in a territory still outside the Rapid Support Forces’ authority.
Eight hours later, he was in a hospital in Tine, his hands burned and bandaged.His 15-year-old cousin, Tadjerdin Mahammat Anour, was by his bedside. Since April 2023, Sudan’s army has been fighting its old friends, the RSF, murdering over 11,000 civilians and causing over 15 million people to flee their homes, according to the UN.
Another relative, aged 16, was killed on the spot, according to Tadjerdin, while clad in a white tunic and with burns on much of his face. I do not understand why we were targeted. “We didn’t have any weapons,” he explained. Tadjerdin was freed from the hospital after four days, accompanied by his uncle, 27-year-old Souleymane Haggar Anour, who was certain who was behind the attack.
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