In 2025, people who had fled Sudan into eastern Chad underwent biometric registration before relocation to a UNHCR-run settlement. A UNHCR photographic record shows a girl looking into an iris scanner while others queue behind her. After registration, families waited with their belongings to board trucks taking them away from the border toward assistance.
Two years into the war in Sudan, arrivals continued while reduced funding strained reception capacity. Registration linked a verified individual identity to relocation and aid.
This queue was not the end of displacement. It was the order through which people who had crossed a border submitted names and biometric information to an institution before moving toward another place of relative safety.