Reports

Organization expands humanitarian response to critical health care crises Stamford, Conn., June 11, 2004 - On Sunday, June 13, AmeriCares will airlift 30,000 pounds of additional lifesaving medicines and hospital supplies to help alleviate the ongoing health crisis in refugee camps…

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)…

"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…

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,…

Vast majority of the refugee population will be unaccessible during the rainy season; thus, an urgent need to deliver relief aid before then Less than 5% of the US$ 6.8 million appeal covered US$ 1.9 million urgently…

MEMO/04/133 Brussels, 03 June 2004 - The European Commission is extremely concerned about the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis in the Greater Darfur region of Sudan, where a violent conflict has been raging since early 2003. The ceasefire signed in…

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…

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…

BAHAI, CHAD - May. 14, 2004 Hadiya Beshir Issa and her 15-month-old daughter Munira wait in the shade outside an International Rescue Committee health facility in Bahai, a desolate village in eastern Chad along the northern border with Sudan. They…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: the last situation report was dated April 2, 2004 BACKGROUND For more than 20 years, Sudan has been adversely impacted by…