A landlocked country in the Sahel region of central Africa, miserably poor but surprisingly welcoming to refugees.
Chad hosts 1.3m refugees, most of them fleeing the civil war in neighbouring Sudan. Relative to its population, it shelters 55 times as many refugees as America; relative to its GDP, more than 5,000 times as many.
Chad cannot realistically close its long, porous border with Sudan. Instead, taking advice from donors, it lets refugees in, issues them with IDs and lets them work. Around Adré, a border town where perhaps 250,000 refugees live, Sudanese welders, seamstresses and cooks ply their trades. Refugees are free to move around in search of jobs, or to rent land to farm.
There has been no significant political backlash. Locals find the refugees culturally familiar—many tribes and language groups straddle the border. No one doubts that the new arrivals are fleeing mortal danger, and no one imagines they are moving to Chad to exploit a generous welfare system, because it does not have one.
The UNHCR budgets less than $1 a day per refugee in Chad to cover everything, compared with $380 a night that New York was recently spending to house a typical refugee family in a hotel.
The UAE has sent arms to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces with the support of Chad's government.
Parents are not interested in justice. They are interested in quiet.