Informes

ABECHE, Chad (UNHCR) - Looking at the flooded riverbeds in eastern Chad today, you would never guess that an estimated 180,000 Sudanese refugees have barely enough water to drink in border areas and even in camps established further inland. Heavy…

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…

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…

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…

KEY ISSUES OF CONCERN Security Council passes resolution over Darfur The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on 30 July 2004 paving the way for action against the Sudanese government in 30 days if it does not make progress on…

New York, Jul 30 2004 5:00PM - The United Nations refugee agency announced today that a just-completed ground-breaking study indicates there may be hidden water sources under eastern Chad, a potential solution to the serious water shortages in an…

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 30 July 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR's operation in…

The influx of almost 200,000 refugees into eastern Chad has stretched humanitarian resources to the limit and there is a need for the donor community to back the scaling up of operations there, the International Federation of Red Cross…

STAMFORD, Conn. and CINCINNATI, July 27, 2004 - AmeriCares, in collaboration with the Procter and Gamble (NYSE:PG) Health Sciences Institute, has delivered one million PuR=AE water purification sachets to the Sudanese refugees in Chad, Africa. More than 150,000 refugees are…

The onset of the rainy season is complicating efforts to help more than a million people displaced by violence in the Darfur region of western Sudan. The rains not only increase the potential for cholera or malaria epidemics in…