Reports

EASTERN CHAD, 7 July 2004 - UNICEF and partner agencies have found that over 25 per cent of refugee children in Chad are acutely malnourished. Almost 180,000 refugees - two thirds of them women and children - have fled…

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 6 July 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The rainy season…

TORONTO / 5 July 2004 - The Canadian Catholic Organization for DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE (CCODP) has sent $170,000 to assist refugees in eastern Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan. The latest $100,000 aid package is in addition to…

IRIDIMI, Chad, July 2 (UNHCR) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today told Sudanese refugees in Chad that a peaceful solution must be found in the strife-torn Darfur region, and that security was paramount if they are to return home…

By Karen Homer, Communications Manager Zahra Abdrhman is desperate to tell her story. Tapping on the window of our 4X4 vehicle, she beseeches me politely in accented English not to leave without coming to her home-a hastily-constructed twig hut-for just…

There have been "gross and systematic" violations of human rights in the Darfur region of Sudan, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today after meeting refugees on the final day of a visit to the troubled region. Ahead of a…

Aid workers deliver one million desperately needed water purification packets to help prevent further disease and death Stamford, Conn., July 2, 2004 - An AmeriCares emergency response team has just returned from the Chad/Sudan border in what is being called…

Wilfred Mlay, WV Vice President for Africa, visited Farchana camp in northeast Chad recently, about 1,000km from the capital, N'Djamena. Most of the 11,400 Sudanese refugees in this camp have been in Chad for up to six months and are…

KEY ISSUES OF CONCERN Powell visits Darfur The US Secretary of State Colin Powell travelled to Sudan on 29 June 2004 on a one-day visit and met government officials before travelling to the Abu Shouk IDP camp in North Darfur. Polio…

Summary Sudanese refugees are seeking safety in Chad due to a conflict that began in April 2003, in the Darfur region of Sudan that has resulted in a humanitarian emergency. There were three emergency nutritional surveys conducted…