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UNHCR rushes supplies to over 8,500 Central Africans in Chad
17 Jun 2005 The UN refugee agency has sent emergency supplies to southern Chad, where more than 8,500 recent arrivals from the Central African Republic are encamped after fleeing increasing violence between governmental forces and unidentified armed groups back home. -
Branching out in eastern Chad
6 Jun 2005 The UN refugee agency, together with the Chadian authorities and partners, is trying to populate the semi-arid region of eastern Chad with trees planted by refugees and the local communities. -
UNHCR seeks to ease tensions in Chad's camps
13 May 2005 Recent clashes in Goz Amer and Iridimi camps have resulted in several deaths, injuries and the evacuation of aid workers. UNHCR is working with the authorities for a peaceful resolution to the problem, believed to be sparked by a sense of desperation among the refugees. -
Community centres: Regulating life in eastern Chad's refugee camp
6 May 2005 The 11 community centres in Iridimi camp offer material and moral support for Sudanese refugees, particularly women, who meet there and talk about living conditions in the camp and the circumstances of their flight from Sudan's Darfur region to Chad. -
UNHCR opens 12th camp in eastern Chad
3 May 2005 A first group of about 100 Sudanese refugees was moved today to the new Gaga camp in eastern Chad, aiming to ease congestion in the other camps and to relocate refugees from the border with Sudan. -
Refugee herdsmen return to Nigeria
18 Apr 2005 A convoy of 420 refugees, mostly from the Fulani tribe who fled clashes in eastern Nigeria's Taraba state in 2002, have ended their exile in Cameroon and left for home. Many more are expected to follow later, travelling on foot with their livestock. -
UNHCR, UNFPA fund surgery for refugee and local women in Chad
17 Mar 2005 The UN refugee agency and the UN Population Fund are funding a medical team in Abéché Regional Hospital to perform reconstructive surgery on Sudanese refugee women and Chadian women suffering from fistula as a result of early childbirth, delivery under unclean conditions or after rape. -
Head of UNHCR governing body concludes visit to Chad, Darfur
7 Feb 2005 During the week-long trip, Ambassador Hernán Escudero Martínez, Chairman of UNHCR's 66-nation Executive Committee, met with refugees and internally displaced people from Sudan's Darfur region, as well as government officials in both countries. -
Sudanese refugees settling down in camps in Chad
3 Dec 2004 Nearly a year after they arrived in Chad, refugees from Sudan's Darfur region have begun to settle into their camps. Delivery of assistance is flowing smoothly, but the battle against the elements continues, alleviated partly by tents donated by the Japanese government.