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31 May 2010

Chad
Sheikh refugees in Chad concerned over UN withdrawal

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— Radio Dabanga
GAGA (31 May .) - Refugees in camps in eastern Chad yesterday issued a statement rejecting the inauguration of President Al Bashir, and expressed concern about the withdrawal of United Nations forces in eastern Chad, a peacekeeping mission known as MINURCAT. The statement said that the peacekeepers protect them from attacks by armed militias, and they provide security and stability in the camps. A sheikh of one of the camps in eastern Chad asked the international community, the UN Security Council and peace-loving forces to reconsider the decision
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31 May 2010

Chad
CHAD Food Security Outlook Update May 2010

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— Famine Early Warning System Network
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- Food stocks for poor households in southwestern Batha and Nord are fully depleted, which has led to the selling off of small ruminants at half price and to increased use of coping strategies of last resort: in particular digging into ant hills to find wild grass seeds. Forty to fifty percent reductions in the usual daily food ration are being seen among women and children.

- Despite the start of food distribution projects (subsidized sales, general food distributions), food access issues persist in areas at risk of food insecurity. Cereal prices continue to

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28 May 2010

Chad
UNICEF and partners support reintegration of child soldiers in Chad

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— UN Children's Fund
By Salma Zulfiqar

A regional conference on the recruitment and use of children in armed forces and groups will take place 7-9 June in N'Djamena, Chad - organized by UNICEF and the Government of Chad to seek international commitments on ending the use of child soldiers and better providing for their re-integration and care. Here is a related story.

N'DJAMENA, Chad, 28 May 2010 - For Dowa Samna, 19, working at a garage in the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, is a far cry from his former life in the armed forces. The former child soldier

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28 May 2010

Chad
CHAD Food Security Outlook April through September 2010

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— Famine Early Warning System Network
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- Rainfall deficit and poor temporal distribution of rainfall have created large shortfalls to crop and pasture production in transhumant pastoral areas and northern agropastoral and rainfed grain-farming areas, which makes this the second consecutive year in which these areas are experiencing pasture deficits. Poor agropastoralist households in these transhumant pastoral areas and northern agropastoral and rainfed grain-farming areas are taking their children out of school, increasing out-migration by the entire household to urban areas to look for work or digging for
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28 May 2010

Chad
Au Tchad, l'UNICEF et ses partenaires soutiennent la réinsertion des enfants soldats

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— UN Children's Fund
Une conférence régionale sur le recrutement et l'utilisation des enfants soldats dans les forces et les groupes armés se déroulera du 7 au 9 juin à N'Djamena, au Tchad. Elle est organisée par l'UNICEF et le Gouvernement tchadien pour que soient obtenus des engagements internationaux destinés à mettre fin à l'utilisation d'enfants soldats ainsi qu'un meilleur soutien pour leur réinsertion et leur prise en charge. Voici un reportage concernant ce sujet.

N'DJAMENA, Tchad, 28 mai 2010 - Pour Dowa Samna, 19 ans, travailler dans un garage de la capitale tchadienne,

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27 May 2010

Chad + 1 other
Des nouveaux réfugiés soudanais transférés à l'Est du Tchad

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— Caritas
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L'UNHCR a déclenché une opération de transfert des populations civiles soudanaises de la frontière en destination des camps des réfugiés soudanais de Milé et Kounoungou (Tchad). Après une semaine de tranfert, 1000 réfugiés ont été installés dans le camp de Milé o=F9 vivent déjà près de 16 000 réfugiés du Darfour.
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27 May 2010

Chad + 2 others
Withdrawal of Chad force threatens humanitarian access

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— AlertNet
27 May 2010 11:27:00 GMT

Written by: George Fominyen

DAKAR (AlertNet) - The withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers from Chad risks restricting the movement of humanitarian workers in the volatile northeast of the country and limiting their access to camps hosting about 500,000 displaced from Chad, Sudan and the Central African Republic, aid workers say.

The protection of civilians in the violence-ridden region of the country comes under Chadian responsibility on Thursday as part of the drawdown of the United Nations mission to Chad and the Central African Republic (MINURCAT) by year's end.

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27 May 2010

Chad
Amidst severe food crisis, health and nutrition centres support children in Chad

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— UN Children's Fund
By Anne Fouchard

MOUSSORO, Chad, 27 May 2010 - Radié Hami holds her baby girl, Achta, close to her as they wait at the new Moussoro health and nutrition centre. The young mother is accompanied by her husband and an uncle. It is the nomadic family's first visit to the centre and, in fact, their first trip to the town.

Achta, 2, has been sick for three months. Her parents first tried traditional medicine such as melted butter to sooth her cough. But it didn't work, and Achta kept losing weight. Finally, Ms. Hami and her husband decided to make the 20 km journey to the nutrition

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26 May 2010

Chad + 2 others
UNHCR rolls out satellite tracking system for vehicles

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— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
GENEVA, May 26 (UNHCR) - After pilot projects in Chad, Sudan and Uganda, the UN refugee agency is rolling out a satellite tracking system for its vehicles that will improve staff safety through real time monitoring of movements.

The automatic reporting of position and monitoring of routes will enhance road safety in operations where there are difficulties in communication, where road and driving conditions are poor and where UNHCR staff face security risks such as carjacking.

The tracking technology - piloted by UNHCR's Division of Emergency, Security and Supply (DESS) - will also

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26 May 2010

Chad
FAO/Tchad : les opérations d'urgences menacées par l'absence de fonds

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— UN Radio
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Alors que près de deux millions de personnes sont menacées par l'insécurité alimentaire au Tchad, l'Organisation des Nations Unies (FAO) pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture réitère son appel au financement de ses opérations d'urgence dans le pays.

Au Sahel, plus de 10 millions de personnes risquent la famine

La FAO indique n'avoir reçu que 2 millions de dollars sur les 11,8 milliards réclamés en novembre dernier pour aider

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26 May 2010

Chad + 2 others
TCHAD: BESOINS HUMANITAIRES EN AUGMENTATION MAIS DES RESSOURCES LIMITÉES

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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(N'Djamena/New York, 26 mai): John Holmes, le Secrétaire général adjoint aux affaires humanitaires des Nations Unies et Coordonnateur des secours d'urgence, a achevé aujourd'hui une mission de quatre jours au Tchad.

« Outre la crise que connaît le Tchad depuis l'arrivée de réfugiés soudanais dans l'est, de réfugiés centrafricains dans le sud et le phénomène de déplacement à grande échelle, le pays est maintenant confronté à une situation d'insécurité alimentaire grave et à une crise nutritionnelle dans la ceinture sahélienne », a déclaré M. Holmes.

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25 May 2010

Chad + 3 others
Lack of cash threatens Chad relief effort - Millions risk hunger in Sahel

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— Food and Agriculture Organization
Rome, 25 May 2010 - Lack of funds is jeopardizing FAO emergency operations in Chad where two million people risk hunger after drought and pest infestations slashed food production, FAO said today.

According to FAO emergency operations expert Fatouma Seid FAO has only been able to mobilize $2.0 million of the $11.8 million it requested last November for agricultural emergency operations in the country as part of a UN inter-agency appeal. This compares with $14.5 million raised by FAO for neighbouring Niger, also hit by very serious food shortages.

"Donors are afraid of a repetition

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25 May 2010

Chad + 3 others
Le manque de fonds menace les opérations de secours au Tchad - Risque de famine pour des millions de personnes au Sahel

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— Food and Agriculture Organization
25 mai 2010, Rome - Le manque de fonds compromet les opérations d'urgence de la FAO au Tchad, o=F9 deux millions de personnes risquent la famine après que sécheresse et infestations de ravageurs aient amputé la production vivrière, indique la FAO aujourd'hui.

Selon l'experte d'opérations d'urgence de la FAO, Fatouma Seid, la FAO n'a reçu que 2 millions de dollars sur les 11,8 millions sollicités en novembre dernier pour une intervention d'urgence dans le pays dans le cadre d'un appel interinstitutions des Nations Unies alors que pour le Niger, pays voisin affligé également par de graves

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25 May 2010

Chad
UN council agrees to pull Chad force by year-end

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— Reuters - AlertNet
Source: Reuters

* Chad government wanted force out earlier

* Aid officials concerned by prospect of UN pullout

By Patrick Worsnip

UNITED NATIONS, May 25 (Reuters) - Bowing to demands by the government of Chad, the Security Council on Tuesday instructed U.N. peacekeeping troops to withdraw from the poor, violence-ridden country by the end of the year.

A council resolution extended the mandate of the force, which had been due to expire on Wednesday, just until Dec. 31 -- a compromise with Chad's President Idriss Deby, who had originally asked for it to start leaving in March.

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25 May 2010

Chad
CHAD: UN HUMANITARIAN CHIEF URGES URGENT AID FOR DROUGHT AFFECTED

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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(Ndjamena/New York, 25 May 2010): On the third day of his visit to Chad, John Holmes, United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, visited western Chad, which has been hit by a severe food and nutrition crisis. About 1.4 million people are affected in the western Sahelian region alone according to the latest emergency food security assessment by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) while in November 2009, an assessment revealed that about 2 million people were food insecure in the country as a whole.
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25 May 2010

Chad
TCHAD: LE CHEF DES AFFAIRES HUMANITAIRES DE L'ONU DEMANDE UNE AIDE ALIMENTAIRE D'URGENCE POUR LES VICTIMES DE LA SECHERESSE

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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(N'Djamena/New York, 25 mai): au troisième jour de sa visite au Tchad, John Holmes, le Secrétaire général adjoint aux affaires humanitaires des Nations Unies et Coordonnateur des secours d'urgence, s'est rendu dans l'ouest du pays qui est gravement touché par la sécheresse et une crise nutritionnelle. Selon l'évaluation d'urgence sur la sécurité alimentaire menée par le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM), 1,4 million de personnes sont affectées dans la seule partie sahélienne de l'ouest du Tchad alors qu'en novembre 2009, une autre évaluation avait
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25 May 2010

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Chad hunger overshadowed by Niger food crisis - UN

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— Reuters - AlertNet
25 May 2010 17:01:16 GMT

* Only $2 million raised for Chad so far

* Food shortages already prompting migrations

By Moumine Ngarmbassa

MAO, Chad, May 25 (Reuters) - Relief efforts for two million people facing food shortages in Chad are suffering because donors are concentrating aid on neighbouring Niger, a United Nations agency warned on Tuesday.

Niger is seen at the centre of a looming food crisis in the Sahel, the strip of land stretching across the south of the Sahara where some 10 million people are facing hunger in coming months because of poor rains last year.

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