Reports

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field DARFUR Humanitarian situation Fighting in Western Darfur and south of Nyala continues. It is reported to have resulted in large numbers of casualties. The fighting is provoking further displacement of people and illnesses. The main…

Eastern Chad is desperately short on nearly every resource, from food and water to fuel and building materials. But in the face of a 200,000-person refugee crisis, another of the region's shortages has become frighteningly apparent. There are almost no…

HHS/CDC recommend immediate increase in feeding programs, food rations, and public health measures Sudanese children in refugee camps in northeastern Chad risk serious illness or death from lack of food, clean water, shelter, and health care, say survey findings released…

The Federal Foreign Office has made available 451,800 euro from its humanitarian aid budget to the German Red Cross. These funds will be used to finance a German Red Cross project in eastern Chad aimed at providing basic health…

CARE is scaling up its response to the acute humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan and Chad, which has left more than one million people internally displaced in Darfur and a further 200,000 across the border in Chad. CARE Australia's…

World Vision will launch a blanket supplementary feeding program which aims to assist 100,000 refugees in Chad over the next 6 months. The international relief and development agency will distribute food to children under five-years-of age, pregnant and lactating women in…

Background According to reports a million people have fled their homes and some 10 -30,000 have been killed since the conflict started last year. The displaced have fled their destroyed villages for camps in Darfur's main towns but there…

Context and background The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur states of western Sudan has spilled over into neighbouring Chad. Since July 2003, more than 180,000 Sudanese refugees have crossed the largely unguarded 1,350-km border separating the two countries. So far,…

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 3 August 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Humanitarian supplies flown into…

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation) is taking the responsibility for the establishment and management of a camp for 20,000 refugees at Treguine, in Eastern Chad, near the two existing UNHCR camps in the…