Rapports

Weekly Preamble Update:Update of El Niño Synopsis: El Niño conditions are expected to develop during the next 3 months. Sea surface temperature anomalies increased substantially in the central equatorial Pacific (Niño 3.4 region) during July 2004, while anomalies…

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…

Humanitarian Activities 1 Update on meningitis During last week's health sector coordination meeting, participants concluded that the meningitis situation appeared manageable, although the situation still needed to be followed closely. Agencies noted that every time they finished a vaccination campaign in one…

HHS/CDC recommend immediate increase in feeding programs, food rations, and public health measures Sudanese children in refugee camps in northeastern Chad risk serious illness or death from lack of food, clean water, shelter, and health care, say survey findings released…

Ce rapport ne reflète pas nécessairement la position officielle des Nations Unies. FAITS MAJEURS L'Epidémie de cholera déclarée à Walikale, dans la Province du Nord-Kivu : les analyses menées à Goma (au labo provincial AMIKIVU) ont confirmé l'existence de l'épidémie à…

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Andrew S. Natsios announced that the agency's Office of Food for Peace approved a contribution of 31,700 metric tons of emergency food assistance for operations in Darfur, Sudan. The food aid,…

02 - 06 August 2004 A. GENERAL SITUATION Highlights WFP starts reduced ration distribution due to food pipeline brake For the last couple of months, WFP have continuously warned of the probability of a food pipeline brake in August, if funding shortfalls in…

World Vision will launch a blanket supplementary feeding program which aims to assist 100,000 refugees in Chad over the next 6 months. The international relief and development agency will distribute food to children under five-years-of age, pregnant and lactating women in…

Background According to reports a million people have fled their homes and some 10 -30,000 have been killed since the conflict started last year. The displaced have fled their destroyed villages for camps in Darfur's main towns but there…