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/ 17 December 2004

WFP needs $9m to feed refugees in Kenya

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday appealed for -million to feed about 224 000 refugees who face food shortages in Kenya. ”Less and less food has been reaching refugee families. It will get continually worse unless contributions come forward urgently,” said Tesema Negash, the WFP’s country director in Kenya.

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/ 7 October 2004

DRC refugees stopped at border

The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has prevented 1 100 refugees returning home from Burundi, leaving them stuck in no-man’s-land between the two countries, officials said on Thursday. The trucks had been rented privately and the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, was not involved in this impromptu repatriation attempt.

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/ 30 August 2004

Hunger stalks Darfur’s refugees

Ahmed Idris’s wife is preparing the family’s only meal of the day and there is not enough for their 11 children running around their two little shelters in the middle of the Zamzam refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region. The children, some of them with distended bellies, appear malnourished, although their mother says the quantity of the food rations they get has increased considerably in recent months.

  • Nigerian troops set off for Darfur
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    / 25 August 2004

    After the exodus, the refugees dig in

    There is a meat market, where haunches of goat hang from the thatched roof. There are tea stalls and shacks selling hair mousse and skin cream. Some women dig vegetable plots while their neighbours shape clay and water with their bare hands to build new houses. The refugee camp at Iridimi, in north-eastern Chad, is home to 15 000 people who have fled the violence in Darfur.

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    / 17 August 2004

    Refugees ‘lose hope in peace process’

    Sudanese authorities have restored aid deliveries to a camp for 90 000 displaced people in Darfur, United Nations officials said, three days after soldiers reportedly closed the camp following a mob killing of an alleged pro-government militiaman. More than 400 Sudanese fled Darfur to Chad during the weekend, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ spokesperson for east Chad said on Monday.

  • Darfur’s messenger of peace