Reports

DAKAR, le 7 septembre (IRIN) - Les experts en agriculture ont été mis en état d'alerte maximale dans l'est du Tchad et dans la région en crise du Darfour à l'ouest du Soudan en raison des observations d'essaims de…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] DAKAR, 6 September (IRIN) - Locust swarm sightings and favourable breeding conditions have agricultural experts on high alert in eastern Chad and the troubled Darfur region of western Sudan,…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: This report updates Fact Sheet 48, dated August 26, 2005. DARFUR EMERGENCY - NUMBERS AT A GLANCE SOURCE Conflict-Affected Persons in Darfur and Eastern…

AmeriCares plans to continue aiding West Darfur in Sudan in the coming months, delivering, in each airlift, more than 12 tons of essential medicines and relief supplies to aid the Sudanese population living in this area of violent civil…

By Jasmine Pittenger In south-east Chad, residents of temporary camps for people who have fled their homes have access to safe drinking water - which some of the permanent local residents do not. The shortage of safe water has contributed…

by Djimte G. Salomon - Communications Manager World Vision Chad has brought in maize from neighbouring Cameroon, which it is selling to vulnerable communities in Chad at subsidised prices to help them through the lean season. Last year's crop was…

SOUTH SUDAN Security The general security situation remains calm in south Sudan. However, there are unconfirmed reports from Nimule / Magwei Counties of continued attacks by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Northern traders who left the towns of Juba / Malakal after…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: This report updates Fact Sheet # 47, dated August 19, 2005. DARFUR EMERGENCY - NUMBERS AT A GLANCE SOURCE Conflict-Affected Persons in Darfur and…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond - to whom quoted text may be attributed at the press briefing, on 26 August 2005, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR has begun…

Most of the current Desert Locust activity is concentrated along both sides of the Chad/Sudan border and on the Red Sea coastal plains in northeast Eritrea. In the past few days, there have been a few unconfi rmed reports…