Reports

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Kris Janowski - to whom quoted text may be attributed at the press briefing, on 23 March 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR and its partners…

Population Indicators: Total population (2002): 8,348,000 Population under 18 (2002): 4,443,000 Population under 5 (2002): 1,593,000 Annual number of births (2002): 405,000 Nutrition Indicators: Infants with low-birth weight (1998-2002): 17% Children exclusively breast-fed (<6 months): 10% Breastfed with complementary food (6-9 months): 68% Children still breast-feeding…

N'Djamena, March 19 - Seven-year-old Amina doesn't know where her parents are, or even whether they are alive. When militias attacked their village in Darfur, western Sudan, she and four siblings - all under age 12 - fled into…

Driven out of their homeland and into the desert of eastern Chad, more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees look to the international community for help. Since Sudan gained its independence from Egypt and Great Britain in 1956, it has endured a…

ABECHE, Chad, March 19 (UNHCR) - Aid is on the way for thousands of refugees in the northern part of the Chad-Sudan border area as the UN refugee agency sends relief items and opens a new relocation site this…

NAIROBI, 16 March (IRIN) - Chadian troops have successfully crossed into Darfur, western Sudan, to rescue cattle stolen by Sudanese militias known as Janjawid, according to UN sources. In the last couple of days, Chadian soldiers had crossed into Gogei,…

Appeal Number: 6493 Appeal Amount: $100,000 Situation Report Sudan has been virtually in a state of civil war since its independence in 1956. The on-going conflict has created the largest internal displacement crisis in the world, and more than two million people…

According to the United Nations, several thousands people in Sudan are dead, and more than half a million people have fled their homes since fighting first broke out in April 2003 along the western region of Sudan known as…

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 12 March 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR has now…

Baltimore, Maryland, March 12, 2004 Violent militia raids, destruction of villages, water scarcity, and harsh weather conditions threaten the security and survival of between 100,000 to 120,000 Sudanese refugees who have fled into Chad to escape the increased ethnic fighting…