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UNHCR resumes repatriation of Sudanese from Ethiopia's Bonga camp
14 Dec 2006 The UN refugee agency has resumed the assisted repatriation of Sudanese refugees from Ethiopia with a first group of 500 leaving for their homeland earlier this week. -
A proud Iraqi laments violence against women from her Spanish exile
6 Dec 2006 Taiseer thought things would get better when US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq three years ago. Instead, the country has plunged into chaos and the position and status of women has deteriorated. She left for Spain in 2004, but often thinks about those left behind. -
UN agencies reduce presence in eastern Chad amid security concerns
4 Dec 2006 Amid a deteriorating security situation, UNHCR and other UN agencies have decided to withdraw most of their staff from the vicinity of six camps in eastern Chad housing some 100,000 Sudanese refugees. -
Refugees returning to southern Sudan face enormous challenges
1 Dec 2006 More help from the international community is crucial in bridging the gap between repatriation and long-term reconstruction and development in post-conflict South Sudan. A new, US$10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced today, is part of that effort. -
UNHCR airlifts 110 tonnes of aid to replace looted stocks in Chad
1 Dec 2006 UNHCR has airlifted 110 tonnes of emergency relief supplies to the Chadian capital of N'Djamena as part of an urgent effort to replace stocks looted from the main UNHCR depot in the eastern town of Abéché. -
Survivors of Darfur massacre face uncertain future in fragile Chad
28 Nov 2006 UNHCR starts moving hundreds of survivors of Darfur's deadly Jebel Moon attacks from border areas to camp further inside Chad. Several hundred have been moved, but the security situation in eastern Chad remains uncertain. -
UNHCR and World Food Programme alarmed over threats to aid flow in Chad
27 Nov 2006 The UN refugee agency and the World Food Programme on Monday appealed for the rapid restoration of order in eastern Chad following weekend unrest in which mobs looted warehouses storing vital aid supplies for hundreds of thousands of Darfurian refugees and displaced Chadians. -
South-east Chad quiet but tense; displaced too scared to go home
24 Nov 2006 The security situation in south-east Chad has been relatively quiet this week, but thousands of displaced people remain too scared to return to their villages because armed groups are still moving in the region. -
UNHCR resumes repatriation of Sudanese from Kenya's Kakuma camp
22 Nov 2006 The UN refugee agency has resumed the repatriation by air of Sudanese refugees from this camp in north-west Kenya after suspending the progamme in June for financial and logistical reasons.