Reports

An AmeriCares airlift of emergency medical relief is scheduled to land in Chad on Sunday, June 6. Working with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the aid will be used to treat refugees in Bahai, Kariari and other surrounding villages…

Oxfam will launch a £1 million public appeal on Sunday to raise funds for people who have fled their homes because of the conflict in Darfur in Western Sudan. An estimated one million people have been made homeless in the…

ABECHE, Chad, May 28 (UNHCR) - The first rains have hit eastern Chad, giving the UN refugee agency a glimpse of upcoming challenges in its emergency operation to assist an estimated 125,000 refugees from the Darfur region of western…

Baltimore, May 28, 2004 -- Lutheran World Relief is supporting water, sanitation and refugee camp construction for up to 30,000 Sudanese people who have recently fled to Chad from the Darfur region of Sudan. Families will also receive tools…

CARE International launches a massive humanitarian response to help refugees Zeriba Bouch's day-old twins lie unmoving on the dirt floor of their makeshift shelter in a refugee camp in Chad. The 22-year-old mother hasn't named them yet; when they are…

Christian relief and development agency Tearfund welcomes as hugely significant the signing of peace accords between the government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), but is concerned that comprehensive peace in Sudan is not possible without also…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KOUNOUNGO CHAD, 25 May (IRIN) More than 100 Sudanese refugee women clad in brightly coloured flowing dresses queue patiently to draw water from the yellow plastic blister by a…

N'djamena, CHAD, May 25 (UNHCR) In an effort to pump sufficient aid supplies into eastern Chad before the start of the five-month-long rainy season, the UN refugee agency today launched a new wave of an emergency humanitarian airlift for…

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 25 May 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. A new UNHCR…

From the dusty track, coming by car, the white surfaces of the school stands out brilliantly in the midst of the yellow-brown color of the refugee camp of Kounoungo. More than 8,200 Sudanese refugees live here in the middle…