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No prospect for Darfur's refugees to return soon, says Lubbers
3 Mar 2004 After listening to their horror stories, High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers has acknowledged that some 110,000 people fleeing violence in western Sudan may have to stay in eastern Chad for some time to come. -
Time for Chad to repay past kindness, President tells Lubbers
2 Mar 2004 Meeting Sudanese refugee leaders in Farchana camp in eastern Chad, High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers relayed Chadian President Idriss Deby's message that it was time for Chad to repay past hospitalities by taking care of 110,000 refugees from Darfur. -
Lubbers to visit Sudanese refugees in Chad
24 Feb 2004 This weekend, High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers will travel to Chad to review an emergency operation that has delivered tons of relief aid and moved more than 6,000 refugees to inland sites away from the insecure border. -
Thousands of Sudanese set for third camp in inland Chad
20 Feb 2004 The UN refugee agency is opening a third camp to relocate thousands of Sudanese refugees away from the Birak area of the Chad-Sudan border, with the first groups expected to move this weekend. -
More aid, new site for desperate refugees on Chad-Sudan border
17 Feb 2004 The UN refugee agency has started daily airlifts that will bring 256 tons of relief supplies for 110,000 Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad. UNHCR and its partner GTZ are also readying a third site to relocate more than 5,000 refugees from the insecure border. -
Emergency airlifts bring supplies to Sudanese refugees in Eastern Chad
13 Feb 2004 The UN refugee agency is airlifting more supplies and staff to eastern Chad to reinforce its efforts in a race against time to move Sudanese refugees from the volatile border to safer sites further inland before the start of the rainy season in late May. -
UN refugee agency begins evacuating Sudanese refugees from conflict zone
9 Feb 2004 Battling blinding sandstorms, aid workers begin evacuating thousands of Sudanese refugees from the Chadian border town of Tine that came under a bombing attack last month. -
UN refugee agency to begin moving refugees from besieged Chadian border
6 Feb 2004 The UN refugee agency is moving to a temporary facility thousands of newly arrived Sudanese refugees encamped in a Chadian border town that came under aerial bombardment last week. -
UN refugee agency to relocate some 10,000 Sudanese along Chadian border
3 Feb 2004 The UN refugee agency and Chadian authorities have registered nearly 10,000 Sudanese refugees along Chad's north-eastern frontier and are preparing to move them inland, away from an area that came under a bombing attack last week.