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August 11, 2010: "e;Thousands of homes have been flooded in and around Niamey Some five thousand people in Niger lost their homes and crops after the River Niger burst its banks at the weekend.The West African country is already suffering from severe ...

Date: 25 May 2010
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Source: UNHCR In a remote southern part of Chad, we began this week the transfer of some 1,100 newly arrived Central African refugees from the border to a refugee camp where we can assist them. These refugees ...

Date: 07 May 2010
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Date: 16 Nov 2009
Source: UN News Service

Source: IRIN The UN Refugee Agency is colour-coding villages red, yellow and green in eastern Chad marking how safe it is for internally displaced persons to return home: people from areas classified as green – "safe" – will no longer be considered as IDPs, but can remain in the camps.

GORE, Chad, 3 June 2009 – After the death of her husband in 2007, Hadidia Aliou fled her home village in northern Central African Republic (CAR), taking her five children with her. The family now lives in the camp of Dosseye, one of three refugee camps located about 30 kilometres from the shared Chad/CAR border.

DAKAR Thursday, May 21, 2009 (IRIN) - Growing insecurity in eastern Chad is limiting aid workers’ access to refugees and displaced Chadians, aid workers say.

Source: IRIN Growing insecurity in eastern Chad is limiting aid workers' access to refugees and displaced Chadians, aid workers say.

DAKAR Friday, May 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Armed men shot dead a Chadian policeman on the night of 13 May when they attacked the post of national police specially trained to protect refugees, displaced persons and humanitarian staff in eastern Chad.

DAKAR Friday, May 08, 2009 (IRIN) - UN officials in Chad are assessing whether it is safe for humanitarian staff to return to an area in the east where clashes this week between rebels and government forces forced out most aid workers.

DAHA, SOUTHERN CHAD Tuesday, May 05, 2009 (IRIN) - Aid agencies are racing to position food and other relief supplies for some 18,000 men, women and children from Central African Republic who fled to southern Chad, most of whom have taken refuge next to the border. Rains due in the coming weeks will cut access to the refugees, aid workers say.

Am Nabak is a fine place for camels. It is rocky and dry, and getting drier. The water table can't support the current population of a few camels and around 17,000 refugees from the war in Darfur, so water is brought in overland by truck. The camp is situated scant 25 kilometers from the Darfur border. This is too close to the war zone by United Nations standards; it was only supposed to be a transit camp through which refugees passed on their way to more permanent and secure camps. But the refugees have settled in at Am Nabak and, despite the urging of the UN Refugee Agency, prefer to remain close to the border.

The UN Mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (known by its French acronym MINURCAT) and the Chadian government are charged with protecting the refugees. The UN and European Union peacekeepers are stretched thinly across the region, and the Government of Chad has fewer than 1,000 gendarmes to secure an area three times the size of California.

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Date: 30 Jan 2009
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

UNHCR visits thousands of Central African Republic refugees sheltering in south-eastern Chad after fleeing attacks by rebel groups in recent weeks.

Source: IRIN An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people in the Chad capital N'djamena have been forced out of their homes in a government programme to demolish buildings authorities say are on state property.

Church World Service-USA Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Zeinaba Adam, the mother of five children and a resident of the Aradib displacement camp in eastern Chad, is no stranger to guilt. KOUKOU ANGARANA, CHAD -- Zeinaba ...

Lutheran World Federation (LWF) - Switzerland (Department for World Service) KOUKOU ANGARANA, CHAD, 5 November 2008-Zeinaba Adam, the mother of five children and a resident of the Aradib displacement camp in eastern Chad, is no stranger to guilt. In the midst of a raid on ...

Action by Churches Together (ACT) - Switzerland KOUKOU ANGARANA, CHAD, 5 November 2008--Zeinaba Adam, the mother of five children and a resident of the Aradib displacement camp in eastern Chad, is no stranger to guilt. In the ...

Imagine working on a windswept beach. There would be sand in your eyes, your ears, your nose. It would cover your laptop, your notes, your camera, your everything. And no matter how many times you cleaned it off, it would be back again in the blink of an eye. That's what it's like to work in dusty, baking hot, eastern Chad. (Only without the ocean to cool off in.)

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has just started operating in Bredjing camp, which is about 70km from the Sudanese border and home to 31,000 Darfuri refugees who've fled the fighting there. The nearest Chadian town is Hadjer Hadid, which has the feeling of a place time and the government forgot - sand roads, little infrastructure and a rundown local health center.

Given the remoteness, the area is prone to roadside robberies which means we travel to the camp in convoy for extra security. It's just one of the challenges of delivering aid to such an outlying area, along with having to bring in supplies from the capital Ndjamena, which can take two days by road or two flights.

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