CHAD / REFUGEE HEALTH
Refugees in southern Chad receive health care under a European Union-funded programme. A new clinic tackles malaria, malnutrition, respiratory infections and more. UNHCR
Refugees in southern Chad receive health care under a European Union-funded programme. A new clinic tackles malaria, malnutrition, respiratory infections and more. UNHCR
Conflict in the Central African Republic has driven thousands of refugees across the borders to Camp Amboko a refugee camp in southern Chad built ten years ago by the United Nations Refugees agency. UNHCR
Funding from the European Union helps refugee children in southern Chad’s Camp Amboko go to school. UNHCR
The United Nations Refugee Agency says that around 50,000 Sudanese refugees fleeing inter-ethnic violence in the troubled Darfur region have crossed into Chadover the last week. CHUNTV
The global acute malnutrition rate for children under 5 in nine of the Sahel regions ofChadis above the World Health Organization's emergency threshold of 15 per cent, according to a new survey. UNICEF
The International Court of Justice ruled today (20 July) that Senegal must immediately prosecute former Chadian president Hissène Habré, or else extradite him. CH UNTV
The UN’s Sahel regional humanitarian coordinator David Gressly today (13 July) reports on severe drought. UNTV / FILE
UN agencies warned today that children in the Sahel region are at acute risk from an upsurge in cholera. More than 29,000 cases have been reported so far this year. CH UNTV
The UN and its partners today appealed for $1.6 billion to provide vital humanitarian aid to people in the crisis-stricken Sahel region of West Africa, revising their previous requests for funding in light of the dramatic deterioration of the situation. In Chad, UNICEF has launched a programme to protect 200,000 children with nutritional supplements. UNICEF
UNICEF says the nutritional crisis in Chad is being compounded by one of the world’s lowest rates of breastfeeding – only three mothers out of every hundred exclusively breastfeed their children. UNICEF