Informes

Von Raymond Thibodeaux, dpa Bahai, Chad - The pilots of the two jet fighters that attacked Amini Tijanys village in western Sudan made a serious error. Thats what Tijany kept thinking as the jets bombed their houses, killing six people. Everyone…

TOULOUM, Chad, March 3 (UNHCR) - After spending a day listening to their "horrible stories", UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers has acknowledged that Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad may not be able to go home anytime soon. On…

NAIROBI - The United Nations World Food Programme has given a warning that it will have to cut basic food rations to refugees throughout eastern and central Africa unless immediate donations are received. WFP needs US$48.3 million to continue feeding some…

ABECHE, Chad, March 2 (UNHCR) - UN refugee agency chief Ruud Lubbers has started his three-day visit to Chad by reiterating his commitment to helping 110,000 Sudanese refugees in the east despite daunting challenges. Arriving on Tuesday morning in Abeche, the…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Kris Janowski - to whom quoted text may be attributed at the press briefing, on 2 March 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. High Commissioner Ruud…

An IRC emergency response team has been deployed in Chad to assess the condition of refugees from Sudan's western Darfur region. A second team is en route to Darfur itself, where the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, estimates that 600,000…

DAKAR, 25 February (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday it had started a humanitarian air service to eastern Chad, where relief agencies are trying to assist more than 110,000 refugees from the troubled Darfur…

After consulting with UNHCR Africa Bureau in Geneva, a team of three Intersos staff including Lucio Melandri Head, Emergency Response Unit, departed from Rome early February 2004 with the view to undertake an assessment mission in the Sudanese refugee…

GENEVA, Feb 24 (UNHCR) - High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers today announced an upcoming visit to Chad to rally international support around an emergency operation that has delivered tons of relief supplies and moved more than 6,000 Sudanese refugees to…

WASHINGTON, DC, February 24, 2004 - Violence that erupted in Sudan's western Darfur region nearly one year ago and continues unrestrained today, has displaced at least 800,000 Sudanese civilians-including more than 110,000 who have fled to the remote deserts of…