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UNHCR coordinates aid to 26,000 Central African Republic refugees
7 Aug 2007 The UN refugee agency is launching an operation on Wednesday to help some 26,000 refugees who fled insecurity in the Central African Republic and are now living in precarious conditions along the border of Cameroon. -
Report recommends refugee status for Chadians arriving in Darfur
7 Aug 2007 UNHCR and Sudan's Commissioner for Refugees have recommended that thousands of new arrivals from Chad who crossed into Darfur in recent months be recognized as refugees. -
UNHCR organizes solidarity march for displaced persons in Chad
13 Jun 2007 Some 300 people took part in a march through the Chad capital, N'Djamena, on Wednesday to express solidarity with the country's almost half-a-million internally displaced persons. -
High Commissioner visits Chadian refugee camp in West Darfur
26 Apr 2007 UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Wednesday visited thousands of Chadian refugees who fled to strife-torn Darfur to escape growing violence in their neighbouring homeland. -
High Commissioner meets displaced, local officials in West Darfur
24 Apr 2007 UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres arrives in Sudan's West Darfur region, where he urged local authorities to improve security and assured those displaced by conflict that they would not be forgotten. He also announced that the Sudanese government had agreed to an expansion of UNHCR's work in West Darfur. -
Some 9,000 Chadians move to IDP camp after brutal village attacks
10 Apr 2007 Some 9,000 Chadians have arrived in UN refugee agency trucks and on their own at the Habile site for internally displaced persons after brutal attacks on two villages left houses torched and the ground strewn with dead. -
Up to 3,000 villagers flee homes in south-east Chad following fresh attacks
3 Apr 2007 The UN refugee agency and its partners are dealing with a new wave of displacement in south-eastern Chad following a deadly attack at the weekend against the villages of Tiero and Marena. -
Convoy transports more than 220 Chadian refugees from border areas in West Darfur to UNHCR-run camp
19 Mar 2007 Some 550 Chadian refugees have asked to be moved away from border areas in Sudan's West Darfur area because of security concerns, and a first group of more than 220 were moved at the weekend to the Um Shalaya refugee camp. -
UNHCR seeks US$6.2 million to help internally displaced in east Chad
27 Feb 2007 The UN refugee agency on Tuesday issued a US$6.2 million supplementary appeal to fund protection and assistance programmes for tens of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) in eastern Chad.