After conflict erupted in Ethiopia's Tigray region in November 2020, more than 60,000 people fled into eastern Sudan. At Um Rakuba camp, new arrivals formed a line for a World Food Programme distribution. Many had travelled for days and arrived with little more than the clothes they wore.
This is not a queue to romanticise. It is the order through which people who crossed a border are connected to minimum supplies of food, water and shelter. The organised waiting captured in photographs does not show a crisis solved; it records aid systems trying to catch up with mass displacement.