Oxfam and Human Rights Watch called on urgent action by the United Nations to consider dispatching peacekeepers to Chad to prevent a spillover of Darfur crisis and furthering the humanitarian tragedy.

Human rights activists have already documented homelessness of 120,000 Chad nationals as a result of clashes between ethnic communities and insurgency groups and are scavenging for food and shelter and competing with more than 200,000 Sudanese refugees for extremely scarce water.