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UNHCR moves vulnerable Sudanese refugees to inland Chad camps
7 Mar 2008 UNHCR begins moving the most vulnerable among a group of several thousand recently arrived Sudanese refugees on the eastern Chad border. -
Testing time for refugees with an eye on higher education
29 Feb 2008 UNHCR, through implementing partner the Refugee Education Trust, is giving refugee students in Darfur a chance to go to university. -
New site for displaced people opened in West Darfur
26 Feb 2008 UNHCR and its partners establish a new site in West Darfur to accommodate up to 6,000 internally displaced Sudanese. -
UNHCR takes part in inter-agency visit to Darfur attack site
22 Feb 2008 A joint UN mission visits the town of Sirba, one of the West Darfur locations that came under Sudanese government attack earlier this month. -
UNHCR recalls staff from Chad border after air strikes in Darfur
19 Feb 2008 UNHCR withdraws staff from part of eastern Chad's border with Sudan after earlier air strikes against targets just across the frontier. -
Armed group prevents relocation of newly arrived refugees in eastern Chad
15 Feb 2008 The UN refugee agency was on Friday trying to resolve the plight of thousands of newly arrived Sudanese refugees stuck just inside eastern Chad after unidentified armed men refused to permit their relocation to camps. -
Thousands of refugees flee Darfur and seek shelter in Chad
11 Feb 2008 Up to 12,000 people flee militia attacks in Sudan's Darfur region over the past few days and seek shelter in neighbouring Chad. -
Cargo plane delivers UNHCR aid for Chadian refugees in Cameroon
8 Feb 2008 UNHCR flies in 45 tonnes of aid for thousands of Chadian refugees in Cameroon. -
Chadians trickle home from nearby Cameroon, others seek refuge
6 Feb 2008 Chadians who had fled to Cameroon to escape fighting between rebel and government forces started trickling home Wednesday morning as an uneasy calm returned to the Chad capital, N'Djamena. Some were going home for the day and planned to return to Cameroon overnight. But others residents of the capital were still making their way across the border bridge to the security of the neighbouring Cameroon.