Reports

After leading a high level humanitarian mission to Sudan and then travelling to visit refugee camps in eastern Chad from April 28-30, WFP's Executive Director James Morris called a press conference in London on May 4 to highlight the…

Hundreds of thousands of people are urgently in need of humanitarian aid DARFUR, Sudan - CARE is mounting a major emergency response operation in Darfur, western Sudan, to help up to 385,000 people devastated by a conflict that is escalating…

Note: This report updates the last fact sheet dated April 23, 2004 BACKGROUND Fighting between two main opposition groups - the Sudanese Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) - the Government of Sudan (GOS)…

ABECHE, Chad, April 27 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency is investigating reports of a new influx of Sudanese into north-eastern Chad, an area already hosting earlier waves of refugees facing food and water shortages. According to local authorities in…

The European Commission has adopted three humanitarian aid packages, totalling €7 million, in response to the crises in Chad (€4 Million), Madagascar (€2 Million) and Ethiopia (€1 Million). These funds are managed by the Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) under…

A violent campaign of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Sudan has forced about 110,000 refugees into eastern Chad. These refugees are extremely food insecure and vulnerable to malnutrition and disease as humanitarian agencies and host communities struggle…

As of 4 April 2004, WHO has received reports of 19 cases and 4 deaths in Iriba district which has an attack rate above the epidemic threshold. The Ministry of Health is implementing measures to control the outbreak and…

International Medical Corps (IMC), a global humanitarian relief agency headquartered in Los Angeles, is on the ground in eastern Chad preparing to provide health care and nutritional support to refugees fleeing violence in the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan. The…

Executive Summary As a result of the ongoing conflict in Darfur, thousands of Sudanese have fled their country to seek refuge in neighbouring Chad. The exact number of refugees, who are scattered along a 600 km stretch…

1 APRIL 2004, N'DJAMENA - Some 110,000 Sudanese refugees, the majority children and women, have recently fled into Chad's remote and forbidding eastern desert region following brutal attacks on their villages. "We had to run from our village when they attacked…