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Sun 27 Jun, 2004 09:54 pm
The hard facts :
Quote:Facts on the Sudan refugee problem, according to the United Nations:
_Close to 600,000 people in Darfur were provided with food during May by the U.N. World Food Program and its international relief organization partners.
_By the end of June, shelter material and blankets will be available for 90 percent of the one million displaced persons affected by the conflict in Darfur.
_About 350,000 people have been provided with clean water but much more needs to be done.
_The U.N. Children's Fund, the World Health Organization, the Sudanese Ministry of Health and several relief groups are carrying out a measles immunizations on more than 2 million children in Darfur.
_UNICEF and relief organizations have opened 18 centers to aid severely malnourished children in Darfur and many more are needed.
_The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has move over 106,000 refugees to eight camps further inside Chad, away from the Sudanese border.
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Thanks Thok. Will post this on
the other thread on Sudan / Darfur.