Informes

by James Addis - Communications Aziza Ounda Hassan is only 13 years old, but it is she who organises her group of half-a-dozen women who mix up ounds of corn soya blend, sugar and oil at Iridmi refugee…

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is preparing $6.1 million Cdn./$4.6 million U.S. in aid for victims of violence in western and central Sudan. MCC is working directly with its partner in the region, the Sudan Council of Churches. An MCC assessment…

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…

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Andrew S. Natsios announced that the agency's Office of Food for Peace approved a contribution of 31,700 metric tons of emergency food assistance for operations in Darfur, Sudan. The food aid,…

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…

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…

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…