Informes

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 Appeal No. 05AA021; Programme Update…

GORE, Chad, 5 July (UNHCR) - With rainy season floods just days away, UNHCR is scrambling to relocate some 10,000 refugees from the troubled Central African Republic (CAR) who recently arrived in several villages in remote southern Chad. The refugees,…

IP/05/832 Brussels, 1 July 2005 The European Commission has moved to provide significant emergency funding for vulnerable populations living on the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert. The package, consisting mainly of targeted nutritional support, involves €4.6 million for Niger and €2…

GHANA CRISIS APPEAL FOR TOGOLESE REFUGEES IN GHANA AND GHANAIAN HOST COMMUNITIES UNICEF Ghana seeks funding of US$ 946,000 to: a) Ensure that at least 90% of the 8,000 child refugees of Togolese origin in Ghana and 4000 of…

Ten-year old Hamid is picking leaves and berries from a bush growing wild in the desert in northern Mali. There is nothing else to eat, after locust swarms and drought devastated crops across northern Mali and Niger last year. With…

by Rosemarie North in Tréguine Camp It is 8am on Monday morning, and already hot in Tréguine, a Red Cross-run refugee camp of 14,500 people in eastern Chad, near the border with Sudan. A dozen women carrying small children sit…

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Background The Rapid Response Fund pilot project, financed by DFID and the Norwegian government, and implemented by UNICEF in collaboration with OCHA, has been operating in eastern DRC since October 2004. Its rational was to enhance the capacity…

HIGHLIGHTS Healthcare for returning Burundian refugees: a cross border health meeting was held in Kibondo in Tanzania on June 28-29. The meeting aimed at exchanging information on protocols for the management of medical conditions in both countries and devising recommendations in…

26 juin - 03 juillet 2005 I. Situation politique et sécuritaire Le mercredi 29 juin 2005, les principales formations politiques de la Côte d'Ivoire ont convenu du démarrage effectif du processus de désarmement qui a déjà connu beaucoup de retard…

26 June - 03 July 2005 I. Key political and security highlights On Wednesday 29 June 2005, the main political fractions in Cote d'Ivoire agreed to kick-start a much-delayed process of disarmament and reaffirmed a commitment to hold presidential elections on…