Rapports

The European Commission has allocated €25.5 million to combat a locust plague currently blighting West Africa, thereby more than doubling the total aid so far granted by international donors in response to this plague. This emergency aid will buy…

Note: This report updates fact sheet 1 FY 2005, dated October1, 2004. DARFUR EMERGENCY - NUMBERS AT A GLANCE SOURCE Conflict-Affected Persons in Darfur and Eastern Chad 2.2 million people U.S. Government, European Union, and United Nations Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Darfur 1.45 million people U.N. Office for…

"Working in Africa is never boring," says Luce Sicotte, a French-Canadian nurse at the medical centre in the Red Cross camp for Sudanese refugees in Tréguine, eastern Chad. At the team meeting at half past six in the morning, it…

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 8 October 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Some 18,000 Sudanese refugee…

"This is the most dramatic race against the clock that we have anywhere in the world at the moment, if we lose, hundreds of thousands of women and children, mostly, will perish, " warns U.N. Emergency Coordinator Jan Egeland…

(Extract) REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO/ BURUNDI: TURBULENT RETURN FOR BANYAMULENGE REFUGEES On 26 September, a group of 366 Congolese refugees in Burundi crossed into Uvira, in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They had…

An interfaith team will deliver MCC's aid in Darfur An interfaith team will deliver MCC's material aid to camps in Darfur. The Sudan Council of Churches (SCC), a longtime MCC partner, has formed a team of 10 Muslim and 20…

Keeping hope alive By Carmen Rodriquez, Oxfam Information Officer in eastern Chad Owning livestock in Chad and Sudan is similar to having a savings account: you start it with a small amount, see it grow and use it only when things…

Weekly Introduction: Update of ITCZ During the final dekad of September 2004, the African portion of the Intertropical Convergence Zone was located near 15.0 degrees north latitude, compared with the 1988-2003 long term mean of 16.0N and last…

The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Chad of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Monica Pinto, will undertake her first official mission to that country from 7 to 17 October 2004. The Independent Expert will…