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Media Centre
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Welcome to the OCHA Chad Media Centre. In this section you will find a range of media materials including latest news, press releases, information kits and statements by senior officials.
For all media enquiries, please contact the OCHA Head of Office.
Click here to access situation reports prepared by OCHA and its partners that provide a succinct, up-to-date account of the current humanitarian situation, outlining the main issues, needs and partners' activities.
Click here to view resources for humanitarians dealing with the media from Reuters Alertnet.
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Unexploded ordance kills six children in Chad
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LIBREVILLE, June 3, 2009 (AFP) - Unexploded weaponry killed six children in eastern Chad in the weeks after a rebel offensive early last month, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported Wednesday.
The explosions on May 14 and 29 at Koukou Angarana and Goz Beida took place near the scene of the fighting and "all the victims were children," the UN agency said in a statement sent to Libreville.
"It is important to remember that after recent fighting in the east, several zones are polluted by these dangerous devices," added the OCHA, which said that mine-lifting teams were at work in the affected regions.
The Chadian rebels who stated that their goal was the capital Ndjamena in southwest Chad entered the country at the start of May from Sudan and passed close to Goz Beida, before being driven back by the Chadian army.
"There is a lot of unexploded ordnance in this region, whether it consists of grenades or rockets. They are poor quality weapons, often of Chinese manufacture," Rodolphe Liebeschitz of the Mag2 non-governmental organisation told AFP.
Mag2 has four teams working in the sector, tracking down the weapons, which tend to explode when picked up and handled by children.
"There's no systematic count of the number of accidents but they are frequent", Liebeschitz added.
Last December, OCHA estimated that 77 people had been killed and at least 200 wounded by such weapons since 2007, and stated that "80 percent of the victims of landmines and UXO (unexploded ordnance) in Chad are children."
Eastern Chad has been the theatre of fighting between government forces and rebels crossing the border from either Sudan or Libya for more than 20 years. Current President Idriss Deby Itno overthrew his predecessor Hissene Habre in such an offensive in 1990.
Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Date: 03 Jun 2009
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Latest OCHA Chad information bulletin & Press releases
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IRIN Lead Stories
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CHAD: National polio vaccinations underway
GOZ BEIDA Friday, October 30, 2009 (IRIN) - A three-day nationwide polio vaccination campaign began on 30 October throughout Chad, including in the east where according to the World Health Organization the rate of routine immunizations is among the weakest nationwide.
AFRICA: AU pushes the envelope on "climate migrants"
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change.
Analysis: African IDP convention fills a void in humanitarian law
KAMPALA Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa is a comprehensive document that will, if ratified, fill a void in international humanitarian law, say experts.
AFRICA: Electronic records can streamline health care
NAIROBI Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Replacing manual data with electronic health records would significantly improve the quality of care and enable African HIV treatment programmes to be scaled up more efficiently, say the authors of a new article on the subject.
AFRICA: Digesting a "mouthful" of climate change
MIDRAND Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Disaster risk reduction as a tool for climate change adaptation is a "technical mouthful" said Rachel Shebesh, chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction.
AFRICA: IDP convention - now the hard work begins
KAMPALA Monday, October 26, 2009 (IRIN) - Seventeen countries signed the African Union convention on internally displaced persons (IDPs) after years of preparation culminated in a week of meetings in the Ugandan capital but a lot more hard work remains before it becomes effective, according to observers.
AFRICA: Climate change could worsen displacement - UN
KAMPALA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With increasing natural disasters, including floods, storms and droughts, hitting the continent, more people in Africa are likely to be displaced, creating a challenge for governments, the UN warns.
AFRICA: Talking about forced displacement
KAMPALA Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - Civil society and government officials are gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to discuss the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa and a declaration on refugees, returnees and IDPs.
CHAD: Between an IDP camp and unsafe home
GOZ BEIDA Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency is colour-coding villages red, yellow and green in eastern Chad marking how safe it is for internally displaced persons to return home: people from areas classified as green – “safe” – will no longer be considered as IDPs, but can remain in the camps.
AFRICA: Shining the spotlight on the displaced
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Forty years after the rights of Africa’s refugees were enshrined in a landmark convention, the continent’s leaders are due to make legal history again by adopting a new instrument to assist people displaced within the borders of their own country.
AFRICA: Africa's IDP situation at a glance
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa hosts at least 11 million of the world's 25 million conflict-affected IDPs. Millions more are displaced annually by natural disasters.
AFRICA: Africa's IDPs in numbers
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Most IDPs in Africa have been forced out of their homes by conflict, either between government forces and armed opponents or between communities.
AFRICA: The objectives of the IDP Convention
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - The objectives of the Convention
WEST AFRICA: Stopping cholera emergencies
DAKAR Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts say.
In Brief: When health facilities become casualties
DAKAR Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (IRIN) - Designed to be safe havens in times of disaster, health facilities are vulnerable to upheaval when catastrophe strikes, according to the UN, which is focusing on hospital safety for International Day for Disaster Reduction.
AFRICA: Fighting the "double whammy" of obesity and hunger
BANGKOK Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa faces a double burden of obesity and hunger as millions take up increasingly sedentary lives in cities and the global financial crisis hits rural populations’ food security, nutritionists warn.
How To: Rescue people trapped in a collapsed building
NAIROBI Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - When an earthquake strikes a town, or a building is levelled by an explosion, news footage invariably shows search and rescue teams trawling through the rubble looking for survivors. But what does it take to rescue people trapped under tons of concrete?
In Brief: Voices of landmine survivors
DAKAR Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - A landmine survivor in Senegal’s Casamance region on 6 October used the recent report, ‘Voices from the Ground’, based on a survey of mine victims worldwide, to remind aid agencies, Senegal’s anti-mine agency and the media of victims’ needs and governments’ responsibilities.
In Brief: Migration myths dispelled in UNDP report
BANGKOK Monday, October 05, 2009 (IRIN) - Most migrants do not move from developing to developed countries, and when they do, rather than hurting host economies, they benefit them, according to a new report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
In Brief: Liberia fares better in governance index
DAKAR Monday, October 05, 2009 (IRIN) - West Africa ranks third after Southern Africa and North Africa on the 2009 Mo Ibrahim index of African governance assessing governance across the continent's five regions, spanning 53 countries.
In Brief: Twenty cities most vulnerable to storm surges, sea level rises
DAKAR Thursday, October 01, 2009 (IRIN) - According to (yet another) new climate change report, this time from development think-tank CGD, these are the 20 cities where the most people will be at the greatest risk from sea level rise and storm surges in the developing world.
CHAD: Acute malnutrition high in eastern town
DAKAR Thursday, October 01, 2009 (IRIN) - Aid workers are looking at how to boost children’s nutrition and overall health in eastern Chad’s main city, Abéché, after a survey revealed that 20.6 percent of children under five suffer acute malnutrition.
CHAD: Relocating a refugee camp in volatile east
N'DJAMENA Wednesday, September 30, 2009 (IRIN) - Aid workers in eastern Chad are preparing to move some 28,000 Sudanese men, women and children from a refugee camp infiltrated by supposed rebels.
AFRICA: Why family is best for orphans
NAIROBI Wednesday, September 30, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa's orphans will experience a richer, more wholesome childhood if they are raised within a family rather than in a childcare institution, according to speakers at a conference on family-based care for children in Nairobi.
Analysis: Scrapping user fees "just the first step"
NAIROBI Thursday, September 24, 2009 (IRIN) - Donor-backed user fees for health services were supposed to decentralise primary healthcare and provide revenue for essential drugs: instead, advocacy groups charge, they have ended up killing the poor in the developing world.
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