Informes

Almost 10,000 people received relief items during World Vision's first distribution in a refugee camp in Chad. The distribution, which commenced on 12 July, covered 2,161 families who fled Sudan to the Bahai region, five kilometres from the north-eastern…

by Gauthier Lefèvre in eastern Chad At six o'clock in the morning, a group gathers outside the International Rescue Committee (IRC) medical centre in Oure Cassoni refugee camp. Women in colourful dresses, old men in desert-stained white tunics, and children…

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 27 July 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The situation in Farchana…

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 181 countries. In Brief THIS REVISION OF EMERGENCY…

RESUME La campagne agricole 2004-05 a d'une manière générale bien démarrée. Elle a connu un retard par rapport à l'année dernière dans une partie du pays : Dourbali, Bokoro. Le stade phénologique des cultures céréalières généralement observé va de semis…

Les ravitaillements de certains camps des réfugiés ont été perturbés par les pluies. Le conflit au Darfour (Soudan) a fait plus d'un million de déplacés parmi lesquels 200 000 réfugiés sont arrivés à l'est du Tchad. Plus de 35% de…

GENEVA, July 16 (UNHCR) - High levels of malnutrition and diarrhoeal diseases among Sudanese refugees in north-eastern Chad could lead to increases in serious illness and death if not treated immediately, according to the initial findings of a nutrition…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond - to whom quoted text may be attributed at the press briefing, on 16 July 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Torrential rains, sandstorms and…

United Nations agencies reported today that many residents of a town in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, driven by hunger, are taking advantage of the humanitarian crisis to accept emergency food relief meant only for internally displaced people (IDPs). Some of…

EASTERN CHAD, 7 July 2004 - UNICEF and partner agencies have found that over 25 per cent of refugee children in Chad are acutely malnourished. Almost 180,000 refugees - two thirds of them women and children - have fled…