Photographs from Team Zamzam in Exile:Tiné, Eastern Chad (July 9, 2025)
In an extraordinary short period of time, Team Zamzam has crossed from the El Fasher area of eastern North Darfur to Tiné Djagaraba, a sub-prefecture of the Wadi Fira region in eastern Chad. This is a distance of some 300 kilometers and extremely dangerous because of the deadly predations of the Rapid Support Forces (see the new report from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders-MSF: “Besieged, Attacked, Starved: Mass Atrocities in El Fasher and Zamzam”).
As it has reconstituted itself as a team with seventeen members in Tiné, Team Zamzam has wasted no time in resuming humanitarian work, some of which is represented in the photographs in this album. More than 2,000 children were fed on July 7 and 8—and more will soon received the benefits of the communal kitchen the Team is readying.
Notably, as work becomes more physically demanding (e.g., in the construction of tented structures and the movement of heavy supplies), the Team now includes several men. Besides the work they are called on to do, they provide an excellent model for the countless boys in the vast population that has fled to this part of Chad—more than 100,000 from Zamzam IDP camp alone. Seeing the reality of men doing meaningful humanitarian work is a powerful lesson for all children, most of whom have had no meaningful educational experience.
More photos will follow, but for the moment, here are some of the first fruits of Team Zamzam in Exile—Tiné, Chad:
