Reports

HEJAILIJA, Sudan, Sept 3 (UNHCR) - First came the terror - murders, rapes, pillage, arson. Now comes a life on the move, sleeping in tiny, flimsy straw huts and eating grass and seeds barely fit for animals. "We are safe…

Introduction Since early 2003, the conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan has provoked an outflow of some 200,000 refugees to eastern Chad and caused over one million persons to be internally displaced in Darfur. Armed attacks by Janjaweed…

Ce rapport ne reflète pas nécessairement la position officielle des Nations Unies. FAITS MAJEURS Plus de 10.000 personnes déplacées de la tribu des Babuyu vivent sans aucune assistance le long de la rivière Lwama, dans la province du Maniema. D'après les…

By Micael Johnstone DAKAR/NEW YORK, 3 September 2004 - A 12-country emergency meeting in Dakar, Senegal has decided to use national armed forces to help combat the devastating spread of desert locusts in West Africa. Ministers at the meeting have agreed to…

FAO NEWS RELEASE 04/96 E Emergency calls for rapid response Rome, 2 September 2004 -- Calling the next two months in the battle against Desert Locusts in West Africa "extremely crucial," Dr. Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: the last situation report was dated May 14, 2004. BACKGROUND Since 1993, armed conflict in Burundi has claimed 300,000 lives and displaced…

N'DJAMENA - The United Nations World Food Programme appealed today for US$12 million to expand its special feeding in refugee camps in Chad to save tens of thousands of children under the age of five as well as pregnant…

World Vision launched an emergency locust-eradication campaign this week to help farmers protect their fields from the crop-devouring bugs that experts predict will re-infest the country next month. The program, which covers three heavily-infested zones (Boghé, Dar El Barka and…

I. RESUME Les récoltes des cultures céréalières sont menacées au Sahel avec l'infestation massive des zones agricoles. Une reproduction de grande ampleur se poursuit dans une vaste région du sud de la Mauritanie, dans la zone sahélienne…

SOMMAIRE ET IMPLICATIONS La situation alimentaire des ménages s'est sensiblement améliorée en Août 2004, lorsque comparée aux mois précédents, à la faveur des répercutions économiques de la bonne allure de la campagne agricole. On assiste, en Août, au…