Latest monitoring Updates 22nd February 2008
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- On 21st February IRIN reported that as refugees began moving from Kousseri to a more permanent site in Maltam some 32 kilometres away this week, services and facilities were being rapidly prepared to accept them but conditions remain extremely basic.
- Refugees, most of whom fled Chad at the beginning of February, started being trucked to Maltam on 16 February.
- Many refugees still said they would remain in Cameroon, for fear that security had not yet returned to Chad's capital, as reported by IRIN.
- On 21st February Agence France Press (AFP) reported that the Chadian government has begun talks with rebel groups following a recent coup attempt.
- On 21st February Reuters reported that Chadian rebels denied a government statement on Thursday that they had begun peace talks.
- Chad's government has been under pressure from the European Union to hold talks. The instability is hampering international efforts to deliver aid to half a million refugees from Sudan's Darfur region and Chadians displaced by violence.
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UNJLC
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Type of document : Update
Country : CM CMR 120 Cameroon, United Republic of, TD TCD 148 Chad, Republic of
Publication date 2008-Feb-22
Activities :
Type of document : Update
Country : CM CMR 120 Cameroon, United Republic of, TD TCD 148 Chad, Republic of
Publication date 2008-Feb-22
