Reports

CARE International's Darfur Emergency Operation has begun distributing more than 200 tons of food in Nyertiti, a village in Western Darfur where an estimated 12,000 internally-displaced people have fled to empty-handed from their homes in the war-torn Darfur region. The…

What caused the conflict in the Darfur region? The conflict began early last year after two local rebel groups took up arms against the government of Sudan, claiming that the region was being neglected by Khartoum. There was also…

Ottawa - Aileen Carroll, Minister for International Cooperation, and Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada will respond to the UN's appeal for additional resources to meet the serious emergency needs in Darfur, the western region of…

ABECHE, Chad, May 11 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has expressed concern about continuing challenges to its attempts to assist Sudanese refugees in Chad despite making tremendous progress in the last few months. Some 65,000 Sudanese refugees - more than…

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 12 (UNHCR) - With the peace talks covering the decades-long conflict in south Sudan languishing somewhere between breakthrough and breakdown, UNHCR is pushing ahead - cautiously - with plans to repatriate people to war-ravaged south Sudan. The…

Vatican City - 11 May 2004 - Caritas Internationalis has launched an appeal for over two million dollars to aid Sudanese refugees in Chad. Caritas Secretary General, Duncan MacLaren, recently visited the refugee camps in Chad and said the…

Numbers Of Sudanese Refugees May Rise as High as 200,000 The number of refugees who have fled to Chad to escape fighting in the Darfur area of western Sudan could be has high as 200,000, nearly double the official estimate…

Life in the the little village of Mahamata in Chad is hard and villagers eek out an existence from near desert conditions. But this village has collectively performed an act of outstanding generosity by taking in around 1800 families…

Actuellement, les opérations de déplacements de dizaines de milliers de réfugiés soudanais se poursuivent. Il s'agit pour les équipes de l'UNHCR de les éloigner le plus rapidement possible de la zone frontière entre la région du Darfour au Soudan…

Médecins Sans Frontières: "Plight of the Darfur people in Chad and Sudan should be top priority of international aid community". "We have been urging the international aid community to make a more determined effort in Chad since January," said Donatella Massai,…