Informes

Geneva, 15 January 2004 - After completing a mission to Chad, Ambassador Tom Eric Vraalsen, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs for Sudan, urged today a group of donors in Geneva to provide for US$ 4.3 million to…

RESUME La situation alimentaire est globalement bonne dans le pays à l'exception des sous-préfectures d'Am dam, de Biltine, de Djedda et de Haraze Djombo. Dans ces régions, la production céréalière est en dessous de la moyenne. La…

N'DJAMENA - Conflict in the three states of Darfur (Western Sudan) has brought a humanitarian crisis to the Chadian border, with displacement and disruption for around one million people, according to the United Nations World Food Programme. About 95,000 refugees…

About 90,000 Sudanese refugees are presently estimated to be in Chad along the border with Sudan, with the highest concentration between the border towns of Adré and Tiné. These movements started in July 2003 and continue…

ABIDJAN, 12 January (IRIN) - The UN refugeee agency UNHCR said on Monday it had identified a site for a second refugee camp in eastern Chad to accommodate some of the 95,000 refugees who have flooded into the remote…

Briefer: Ron Redmond - Media Relations This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR website, www.unhcr.ch, which should also…

ABECHE, Chad, Jan 9 (UNHCR) - An emergency team from the UN refugee agency visiting the Chad-Sudan border has heard reports of killing and looting in western Sudan, and witnessed poor living conditions for thousands of Sudanese refugees in…

(New York, 7 January 2004): Ambassador Tom Eric Vraalsen, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs for Sudan, will arrive in Ndjamena, Chad, today. He goes at the request of Jan Egeland, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator. Ambassador Vraalsen…

ABIDJAN, 7 January (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that there had been no firm response so far to its appeal for US $13 million to feed nearly 100,000 Sudanese refugees who have flooded…

JUBA, Sudan, Jan 5 (UNHCR) - Aid workers from the UN refugee agency are in Sudan to prepare for what UNHCR believes will be one of its largest refugee repatriation operations this year - pending the signing of a…