Rapports

Caritas Internationalis has responded to the desperate situation of the Sudanese refugees spilling across the border with Chad by launching a 485,500 USD appeal for aid. Caritas has been assisting Sudanese refugees in neighboring Chad, and now that the chance…

ABECHE, Chad, April 27 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency is investigating reports of a new influx of Sudanese into north-eastern Chad, an area already hosting earlier waves of refugees facing food and water shortages. According to local authorities in…

Refugees International launched its second mission to Chad in two months to monitor the condition of the refugees crossing the border to escape fighting in the Darfur region in western Sudan. An estimated 110,000 refugees have fled into Chad…

NDJAMENA, 21 April (IRIN) - Representatives of the Sudanese government and two rebel movements in the western province of Darfur met in Chad on Tuesday to discuss a political solution to the 15-month old conflict that has forced more…

ABECHE, Chad, April 20 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and its partners have transferred 31,100 Sudanese refugees fleeing the conflict in western Sudan to five camps in eastern Chad, with thousands more set to follow ahead of the…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond - to whom quoted text may be attributed at the press briefing, on 20 April 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. A total of 31,100…

ABIDJAN, 14 April (IRIN) - Political negotiations to end the rebellion in Sudan's western Darfur region will begin in the Chadian capital N'djamena next week, Ahmad Allami, the spokesman of the Chadian mediation team, said on Wednesday. Allami told IRIN…

The European Commission has adopted three humanitarian aid packages, totalling €7 million, in response to the crises in Chad (€4 Million), Madagascar (€2 Million) and Ethiopia (€1 Million). These funds are managed by the Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) under…

By Nick Tattersall IRIBA, Chad, (Reuters) - Wounded and exhausted refugees were still limping into Chad this weekend fleeing Sudan's western Darfur region despite rebel and government assurances that a recently agreed ceasefire was holding. The mostly black African refugees…

By Nick Tattersall IRIBA, Chad, (Reuters) - Thousands of refugees from Sudan risk being stranded on the border with Chad and exposed to attacks by militiamen unless they can be ferried to camps before the rainy season starts, aid workers…