Sophie was the first royal to visit Chad, going at the request of the Foreign Office
This is a human catastrophe that is vast and Chad is having to pick up the pieces when it can ill afford to do so," said Sophie.
The duchess, 59, had travelled to this part of Chad with Unicef representatives and visited a refugee camp where almost a quarter of a million people had gathered, with many more still arriving from Sudan.
She spoke to the mother of a small child who had travelled for 10 days to reach safety and did not know what had happened to her husband in the fighting.
“Whilst the world and its attention is being focused very much on other conflicts around the world, the humanitarian crisis being faced by the people of Sudan, which is landing on Chad’s shores, cannot be ignored,” said the Duchess of Edinburgh.
This is the latest visit by Sophie to highlight the issue of violence against women at times of armed conflict.
Earlier this year she became the first royal to visit Ukraine since the Russian invasion.
Her trips have often been to the type of destinations not usually on royal tours, including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq and Sierra Leone.
