Reports

By World Vision International World Vision will airlift emergency supplies into Chad this weekend, to assist thousands of refugees living along the border with Sudan. The supplies are likely to include water containers, blankets, soap, mosquito nets and cooking pots. Around…

In response to a U.N. request for joint assistance, Japan is going to extend through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)…

PRESS RELEASE No. 57/2004 Addis Ababa, 10 June, 2004 - Representing the Commissioner for Political Affairs, the Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, Ms. Rosebud Kurwijila on 10 June 2004, on behalf of the Chairperson of the Commission of African…

Fighting in the Darfur province of western Sudan has prompted one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in more than a decade. The conflict has forced over one million people to flee their homes. In just a few weeks, many…

"This is the most dramatic race against the clock that we have anywhere in the world at the moment, if we lose hundreds of thousands of women and children, mostly, will perish." This from U.N. Emergency Coordinator Jan Egeland…

An Interview with AAH Desk Officer Roger Persichino on AAH's exploratory mission to Chad, made possible through the generous financial support of the Jarden Corporation. Why Chad and why now? The provinces of Darfur, in neighboring Sudan, are faced with recurrent…

DARFUR, 10 June 2004 - The campaign to immunize more than two million of Darfur's children has so far reached across all nine provinces of South Darfur. Large numbers of children came forward for vaccination in the capital, Nyala,…

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 9 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency is continuing its worldwide airlift of more than 1,700 tonnes of emergency supplies for Sudanese refugees in Chad, hundreds of whom are still arriving weekly amid the start of…

The rainy season has started against a backdrop of worrying desert locust situation SUMMARY The rainy season has started following its normal pattern in the Sahel. Seasonal rains commenced in late April or May in southern Burkina Faso,…

More money for water and sanitation; expanded role in refugee camps OTTAWA - CARE Canada is moving on two fronts to help alleviate suffering among thousands of people forced from their homes by rampaging militia in western Sudan. The agency will…