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Clinton Global Initiative: Refugee teacher seeks to "write" the wrongs
24 Sep 2007 Aziza Souleyman Mahamet says she was selected to become a teacher in Chad's Djabal camp because she could read and write. She does not get paid very much, but says she would not trade her job for any other. -
Clinton Global Initiative: Learning to be a leader, one task at a time
19 Sep 2007 Ambitious teenager Farihalh keeps her goals alive with perfect school attendance at the Djabal refugee camp in eastern Chad. One day Farihalh hopes to return to her home in Sudan and become Minister of Darfur. -
Heavy rains and flooding hamper humanitarian aid efforts in eastern Chad
19 Sep 2007 Heavy rainy season downpours have left areas of eastern Chad flooded and seriously hampered efforts by UNHCR and other aid agencies to help tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadians. -
Refugees dance away boredom and grim memories in Chad
10 Sep 2007 UNHCR is funding a dance project to give refugees from Central African Republic and local Chadians a way to have fun and express themselves, while helping them grow together as a community. -
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.