Informes

General Situation during June 2005 Forecast until mid-August 2005 Although there was an increase in the number of solitarious locusts in the summer breeding areas in the Sahel in West Africa during June, there was no indication of…

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…

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…

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…

IP/05/827 Brussels, 1st July 2005 - Following the violence that occurred in Togo at the time of the presidential election, more than 20000 people fled to Benin. In order to meet the humanitarian needs of the Togolese refugees, the Commission…

22 June - 1 July 2005 A. GENERAL SITUATION The United States of America recently provided an additional contribution to the Disarmament, Demobilization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DDRR) Trust Fund of UNDP. A cheque for US$15 million from USAID was handed over…