Darfur authorities reopen Tina border crossing with Chad for aid deliveries
September 25, 2026 (KHARTOUM) – Regional authorities in Sudan’s Darfur on Friday reopened the Tina border crossing with Chad to expedite the flow of humanitarian assistance to several areas across North Darfur, the regional aid coordination agency said.
The crossing’s resumption coincided with the reopening of the local humanitarian coordination office in the border town of Tina.
Tina serves as a vital overland conduit for cross-border relief into Darfur, where vast parts of the population depend on foreign assistance for food, emergency medical supplies, and shelter amid ongoing warfare.
Abdulbaqi Mohamed Hamed, regional humanitarian aid coordinator and director of social welfare, said in a statement that reopening the border post would secure year-round delivery routes to localities including Kabkabiya, Al-Sereif, Kutum, Tina, Karnoi, and Um Baru, as well as Al-Sayah and Sortony.
The route will significantly reduce shipping costs and transit times, Hamed said, adding that the trip from Farchana in Chad to Tawila via Tina takes one day or less, compared with roughly four days via the Adre crossing further south.
Hamed said 60 aid trucks crossed into North Darfur through Tina this week, while another 35 entered through the northern Sudanese town of Al-Dabbah bound for eastern, southern, and central Darfur.
The route had previously accommodated 25 World Food Programme trucks on August 10 and a United Nations refugee agency shelter shipment on Sept. 5, both completed without disruption, he added.
Hamed urged U.N. agencies and international relief groups to step up operations alongside federal authorities, warning that most hospitals across Darfur had ceased operations and local health clinics could not handle surging caseloads.
Poor rainfall and mass displacement of farmers have sharply aggravated food insecurity across the region, he said.