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Armed men on horseback extend attacks on villages in eastern Chad
10 Nov 2006 The UN refugee agency and its partners have found evidence that armed men on horseback have extended their attacks on villages in eastern Chad. An inter-agency mission travelled to the Koukou region and found a pattern of burned villages similar to that found earlier in the Kerfi area. -
Chadian villages attacked and burned, many dead and hundreds flee
9 Nov 2006 Several remote villages in south-eastern Chad near the border with Sudan's Darfur region have been attacked, looted and burned over the past week by armed men on horseback, leaving scores of people dead and forcing hundreds to flee. Initial reports indicate more than 200 people may have been killed. -
Lives in limbo as terror resumes in eastern Chad
1 Nov 2006 With the end of the rainy season, a feared new wave of inter-ethnic violence has hit remote eastern Chad along its increasingly tense border with Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region. -
UNHCR fears for security in Darfur's Habila area after office raided
13 Jun 2006 The UN refugee agency is concerned about security in the Habila area of Sudan's troubled Darfur region after unidentified gunmen in military uniform attacked a UNHCR field office. One guard was wounded in the leg, but was discharged after receiving treatment at an NGO clinic in Habila. -
UNHCR concerned about janjaweed militia attacks in eastern Chad
6 Jun 2006 The UN refugee agency fears continuing attacks by the janjaweed in eastern Chad could trigger more internal displacements of local Chadians. UNHCR is also concerned that continuing insecurity could pose a threat to border camps housing some 213,000 refugees from Sudan's Darfur area. -
UNHCR warns against rebel infiltration of refugee camps in eastern Chad
26 May 2006 UNHCR warned on Friday that ongoing infiltration of refugee camps in eastern Chad by Sudanese rebels posed a threat to refugees and humanitarian workers. In the latest incident this week, men identified as belonging to one of the Sudanese rebels movements, entered Oure Cassoni camp which lies just seven km from the border with Sudan. -
UNHCR expresses alarm over continuing reports of forced recruitment in Chad refugee camps
16 May 2006 The U.N. refugee agency is receiving reports that the recruitment of Sudanese male refugees - including boys - in its camps in eastern Chad is continuing despite UNHCR's previous denunciation of such activities and repeated calls for Chadian authorities to ensure that the civilian character of all camps is maintained. -
Chadian refugees in Darfur moved from insecure border to a new camp
12 May 2006 On Thursday, the UN refugee agency managed to move nearly 500 Chadian refugees from unsafe areas along the Chad-Sudan border to a new refugee camp further inland in Sudan's West Darfur region, despite delays caused by reluctant donkeys. -
Security concerns heighten following deadly militia attack near Chad refugee camps
2 May 2006 UNHCR is increasingly concerned over growing insecurity along the Chad-Sudan border following a raid by armed militia near Goz Amir refugee camp in which four Chadian civilians were killed and five others were wounded.