Rapports

N'DJAMENA - The United Nations World Food Programme appealed today for US$12 million to expand its special feeding in refugee camps in Chad to save tens of thousands of children under the age of five as well as pregnant…

A total of 2,046 cases and 98 deaths (case fatality rate, 4.8%) have been reported from 14 June to 22 August 2004 in Western Chad, some distance from the refugee camps in the east of the country. The outbreak…

The Security Council's 15 members have received a United Nations report assessing the latest developments in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, a day before the senior UN envoy to the country briefs them on what progress Khartoum has…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] DAKAR, 1 September (IRIN) - The UN refugee agency UNHCR has invited the Chadian government to station 180 policemen in camps for Sudanese refugees in the east of…

Media Briefing WHO N=B04 Disease surveillance systems in Darfur The main health concerns facing displaced people in Darfur and their host communities include: malnutrition, acute respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, hepatitis E and conflict-related trauma. The possibility of outbreaks of communicable…

HEALTH SITUATION Since July 2003, more than 180,000 Sudanese have crossed the border from Darfur into Chad. Conditions in refugee camps jeopardise health-in some cases, severely. Potable water is limited, environmental hygiene is very poor, nutritional status is low, and…

ABECHE, Chad, Aug 31 (UNHCR) - In a bid to improve coverage and protection of people uprooted by the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, the UN refugee agency has sent teams to monitor the situation near the Chad-Sudan border…

United Nations officials are conducting a search-and-rescue operation in the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan to find three UN humanitarian workers and five staff from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who have not been heard from since Saturday. The last radio contact…

A British Red Cross plane filled with vital supplies arrived in Chad on 17 August to help refugees who have fled the violence in Darfur, Sudan. Since the Sudan crisis began, many people have sought to escape the violence in…

Between 26 June and 20 August, a total of 959 cases and 30 depths of suspected hepatitis E virus (HEV) has been reported from Goz Amer and Goz Beida. A team composed of 2 epidemiologists and a logistician from WHO,…