Hunger stalks displaced civilians in eastern Chad
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HABILE, Chad  - Mahamat stares out from beneath his mother's shawl, his eyes glassy and bewildered.
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Hundreds of new refugees from Sudan have poured into overwhelmed camps in Chad. This latest influx is an alarming barometer of the violence inside Darfur.
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Hunger and grief stalked the streets of Indonesia's devastated Aceh province on Wednesday as thousands of people searched for lost family and friends three days after a massive tsunami swept the region.
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Aid workers in eastern DR Congo struggle to cope with a surge of people fleeing recent fighting.
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GOMA, Congo  - Thousands of civilians have fled  their homes after clashes in the east of Democratic Republic of  Congo, the United Nations' humanitarian arm said on Friday.
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Hundreds of civilians have died in fierce fighting between rebels and government forces in Chad's capital, Red Cross officials said Tuesday, as the insurgents agreed to a cease-fire and their momentum faded. Former colonial power France threatened to enter the fight to support the government.
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They have escaped to the camps of Chad with their lives, but, for the refugees from Sudan, rape and violence stalk their days and haunt their nights.
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Turbaned troops patrolled the streets of Chad's capital in pickup trucks Friday while residents took stock of the damage from days of fierce fighting that brought rebels to the doorstep of the presidential palace.
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The border region between Chad and Sudan must be one of the harshest and most remote environments on earth. There is no ideal place to have a refugee crisis, of course, but as locations go this is surely among the worst.
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N&#39;DJAMENA, Chad As Bill Frist, the majority leader of the US Senate, was interviewing Darfurian refugees in Chad earlier this month, the Sudanese government and Arab janjaweed forces attacked a number of black Darfurian villages just a few miles away
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Many displaced people got their first look last week at homes destroyed by renewed fighting.
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KHARTOUM, Aug 21  - Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail Saturday dimissed a UN warning that some 30,000 people displaced by the civil war in Darfur were poised to join a mounting exodus to neighbouring Chad.
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SISI, Chad, Aug 17  - Marauding Arab militias in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region continue to prey on refugees and are crossing into Chad to steal cattle and kill civilians, UN officials and Chadian villagers said on Tuesday.
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Tens of thousands of Chadians fled when rebels stormed the capital earlier this month. They're returning cautiously.
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GOMA, Congo  - Thousands of civilians have fled  their homes after clashes in the east of the Democratic  Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Friday, although  it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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NYALA, Sudan  - Refugee camps in Chad housing  200,000 Sudanese fleeing fighting in Darfur are near capacity  and placing a huge burden on Sudan's impoverished western  neighbor, the United Nations said Friday.
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BAHAI, Chad Under the wide arms of an acacia tree, Khadija Adam Ahmed, 47, chronicled her search for refuge: Sudanese soldiers stealing her 75 cows during an attack at the village well six weeks ago, then shooting at her foot to keep her from running, ...