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A refugee girl carries her
malnourished infant sibling to the therapeutic feeding center
at Oure Cassoni camp in Chad.
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Five-year-old
Khadidja is not sure why she is in eastern Chad and she does
not remember the name of the village in Darfur from which she
fled.
Mohamet,
aged 15, fills in the blanks. He says his Western Darfur village
was attacked by militias. He was very scared but, with his family,
reached the Seneit village border area in eastern Chad. He says
he misses his friends, and he would rather be back home.
Khadidja and Mohamet are just two of thousands of Sudanese who
fled to Chad to escape vicious attacks on civilians in Darfur.
Though
refugees continue to seek safety in Chad, the security situation
there remains extremely volatile and unpredictable, with clashes
between government and rebel forces in recent weeks.
Due to security concerns, UNHCR has withdrawn most of its
staff from six camps in eastern Chad housing Sudanese refugees
from Darfur. The staff have been relocated to safer areas while
a skeleton staff continue to provide aid to the nearby camps
and to monitor the situation.
UNHCR and its partners have been assisting more than 218,000
refugees from Darfur in 12 camps in eastern Chad. There are
also some 90,000 displaced persons in eastern Chad, while some
46,000 refugees from the Central African Republic have sought
refugee in the south. Share
the latest news, videos and photos with your class.
2. AID
DARFUR campaign
Tens
of thousands of people have been killed in Sudan's Darfur region.
Millions more have fled their homes to Chad or remain displaced
within Darfur. Most are women and children, terrified while
the fighting continues.
"Children
of Darfur also have their dreams - to return to their villages
in peace. Join the campaign to AID
DARFUR." - Meryl Streep
AID
DARFUR supports UNHCR's life saving work with Darfur's
refugees.
3. News
to use in the classroom
Kenya: UNHCR
airlifts supplies to flooded refugee camps in north-east Kenya
The
UN refugee agency has begun airlifting emergency supplies for
tens of thousands of refugees displaced by massive flooding
in north-east Kenya.
Somalia: Death
toll from perilous Gulf of Aden crossings this year tops 350
More than 22,000 people have crossed the Gulf of Aden
from Somalia to Yemen this year in rickety smugglers' boats,
most of them leaving from beaches near the bustling town of
Bosaso in the north-east of the country.
Sri
Lanka : First
relief convoy in a month for displaced in rebel-held eastern
Sri Lanka
The first humanitarian convoy to the rebel-controlled town
of Vaharai since October has reached the area and delivered
1,000 UNHCR tents and other relief items for displaced families.
4.
Download free refugee children videos
Meet
some of the nine million refugee children who are living in
refugee camps around the world.
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