Reports

A Christian Children's Fund (CCF) emergency response team left for Chad on August 1 in an effort to assist refugees, who are fleeing from ethnic violence in neighboring Sudan. The team is conducting an assessment of child protection needs…

The Sudanese Government has finalized an agreement reached earlier this week between its Foreign Minister and the senior United Nations envoy to the country paving the way for Khartoum to take detailed steps in the next 30 days to…

World Vision will launch a blanket supplementary feeding program which aims to assist 100,000 refugees in Chad over the next 6 months. The international relief and development agency will distribute food to children under five-years-of age, pregnant and lactating women in…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] LIBREVILLE, 4 August (IRIN) - Chad appealed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday for a special loan to help it look after an influx of nearly…

Background According to reports a million people have fled their homes and some 10 -30,000 have been killed since the conflict started last year. The displaced have fled their destroyed villages for camps in Darfur's main towns but there…

Context and background The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur states of western Sudan has spilled over into neighbouring Chad. Since July 2003, more than 180,000 Sudanese refugees have crossed the largely unguarded 1,350-km border separating the two countries. So far,…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis - to whom quoted text may be attributed at the press briefing, on 3 August 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Humanitarian supplies flown into…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] DAKAR, 2 August (IRIN) - France has deployed 200 of its troops based in Chad to the country's eastern border to help prevent incursions by Janjawid militia groups…

World attention has been turned toward the Darfur region of Sudan, where displacement of local people by militia forces has resulted in a large-scale humanitarian crisis. While this emergency is centered on the Darfur region of western Sudan, the…

Déclaration de la porte-parole adjointe du Quai d'Orsay (Paris, le 2 Août 2004) - La France est mobilisée sur le dossier du Darfour sur les trois volets : humanitaire, militaire et diplomatique : - sur le plan humanitaire, le ministre s'est…