Reports

Oxfam is sending a plane carrying =A3200,000 of emergency water and sanitation equipment to Chad to help thousands of refugees forced from their villages in the Darfur region of western Sudan. The DC8 plane will leave London Manston airport in…

Amount of decision: 10,000,000 euro Decision reference number: ECHO/SDN/BUD/2004/02000 Explanatory Memorandum 1 - Rationale, needs and target population: 1.1. - Rationale: Since late 2002, the security situation in the Greater Darfur Region of western Sudan has been steadily deteriorating and basically evolved from…

1.0 Highlights No cases of cholera were reported in Darfur. Outbreak of measles reported in Habilla: 142 cases with 20 deaths. The Habilla dispensary attends to 50 to 60 outpatients daily. Interagency preparedness is being stepped up for health action during the…

The rains are starting in southern Darfur. Parched land will very soon be turning to mud, and transport on western Sudan's unpaved roads will become a real challenge. Bringing desperately needed aid to a million displaced people will be…

Tearfund's Disaster Management Team is preparing to launch a health and nutrition programme in western Darfur, Sudan, where thousands of people are displaced in what the United Nations has described as the worst humanitarian disaster in the world. Currently one…

Kuito, June 11 - The British Non-Governmental Organisations (OXFAM) has spent over the last eight years Usd 12.5 million in the drilling of 2.500 boreholes in Angola's central Bie province. The information was released to ANGOP by OXFAM representative to…

ISSUE Approximately 1.2 million IDPs and host communities have been directly affected by fighting that has raged in Darfur for the past year. In addition, over 100,000 people have fled to neighbouring Chad, where UNICEF is also…

Benguela, 06/10 - The production of drinking water for Benguela city will increase to 1.200 cubic metres per hour from October 2004, with the functioning of three new wells on Wednesday announced the Provincial Director of Water and Sanitation…

More than two million people have suffered as a result of civil war in the Sudan, and despite peace agreements, Darfur in Western Sudan on the border with Chad remains one of the most severely affected areas with more…

SUMMARY The Rapid Flood Impact Assessment in western Zambia established that affected households require both food and non food assistance as a result of excessive flooding. An estimated 39,277 households in six affected districts will require food assistance…