Rapports

Les criquets pèlerins poursuivent leur invasion dans les pays du Sahel. Après la Mauritanie, le Mali, le Niger, voici qu'ils s'attaquent au Tchad et au Burkina Faso. Le week-end dernier, des nuées de criquets ont envahi l'est du Niger et…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] DAKAR, 13 August (IRIN) - Relief agencies are about to start a special feeding programme for Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad to tackle high levels of malnutrition identified…

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field DARFUR Humanitarian situation Fighting in Western Darfur and south of Nyala continues. It is reported to have resulted in large numbers of casualties. The fighting is provoking further displacement of people and illnesses. The main…

HAJER HADID, Chad (UNHCR) - Abdulai Sahalet stood in the middle of an expansive grass field with the look of a proud landowner and pointed into the distance with his outstretched arm. The green hills of the rainy season…

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 13 August 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. In eastern Chad…

ABECHE, Chad, Aug. 13 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency is moving under heavy rains to ease the plight of Sudanese refugees in Chad and is laying the groundwork to help the displaced in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. Jean-Marie Fakhouri,…

by James Addis - Communications Aziza Ounda Hassan is only 13 years old, but it is she who organises her group of half-a-dozen women who mix up ounds of corn soya blend, sugar and oil at Iridmi refugee…

Eastern Chad is desperately short on nearly every resource, from food and water to fuel and building materials. But in the face of a 200,000-person refugee crisis, another of the region's shortages has become frighteningly apparent. There are almost no…

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is preparing $6.1 million Cdn./$4.6 million U.S. in aid for victims of violence in western and central Sudan. MCC is working directly with its partner in the region, the Sudan Council of Churches. An MCC assessment…

ABECHE, Chad (UNHCR) - Looking at the flooded riverbeds in eastern Chad today, you would never guess that an estimated 180,000 Sudanese refugees have barely enough water to drink in border areas and even in camps established further inland. Heavy…