Rapports

At a time when aid workers and the international community continue to express grave concern for the plight of over one million people in the Darfur province of western Sudan, Australians have shown compassion responding swiftly and generously to…

WHAT: BBC's Natasha Kaplinsky launches the DEC's Sudan Emergency Appeal (the group's 50th appeal) WHERE: i-Witness outdoor Photographic Exhibition on London's South Bank (next to the GLA building) WHEN: 10.00am Tuesday 20th July The UK's best known international aid charities are launching…

By World Vision International The heavy rains falling in various parts of Southern Sudan have delayed food distributions by World Vision Sudan. "Due to the heavy rains, most airstrips are flooded, thus delivering food rations has become a great challenge," says…

1.0 Highlights "People are dying now because they are living in totally unsatisfactory conditions, and many more could die in the coming weeks unless we prevent the lack of sanitation, malnutrition, shortage of clean water and the coming rains from…

KEY ISSUES OF CONCERN Joint communiqué issued over Darfur The UN and the Sudanese government issued a joint communiqué on 3 July 2004 stating that bureaucratic regulations impeding the rapid scaling of humanitarian assistance in the Darfur region would be lifted,…

BACKGROUND The humanitarian emergency in Darfur is a direct result of violence and harassment directed toward the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masaalit civilian groups by Government of Sudan (GOS) forces and GOS-supported militia groups collectively known as Jingaweit.…

Sept 2003 - March 2004: UK committed =A39.5m in response to Darfur. April 2004: Secretary of State announces further =A310m June 2004: Secretary of State announces further =A315m during his visit to Darfur. July 2004: Chancellor announces that UK humanitarian assistance…

- Malnutrition continues, with ongoing food shortages and reported increases in child mortality in some parts of the country - Only 1.3 million out of 1.9 million people in need (68%) have received food aid in the…

"The scale of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Western Sudan, has led Concern to launch one of its largest ever responses to an emergency. Because of the number of people involved, the remoteness of the region and the need…

Christian relief and development agency Tearfund is launching an emergency appeal for funds as 1.2 million people displaced by conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan face a deepening threat of hunger and disease. Tearfund relief workers are launching supplementary feeding,…