The United Nations Agency for Refugees, UNHCR, reported on Wednesday that most newcomers are women and children.
Many come from the Zamzam camp and the city of El Fasher, from the locations targeted by paramilitary fast support forces, which have been fighting forces of the military government for more than two years.
In Chad, the high number of those who arrive put significant pressure on the exceeded resources.
Exhausted and victim
Help teams say that many refugees arrive exhausted after walking for days because they cannot afford transport.
They say they are victims of targeted attacks, looting and sexual violence.
Many children have been injured, separate families and others remain disappeared, said the refugee agency.
Immediate needs in Chad include shelter, food, medical care and psychological support, but the call for response to refugees of $ 409 million is only funded by 20%.
The returned to Syria desperately need help to start again
Syrians trying to rebuild their lives in their country torn apart by war are urgently needed the support of the rest of the world to help them start again, the United Nations aid agencies said on Wednesday.
The hopes increased this week in Damascus after Donald Trump’s decision to end punitive sanctions – but after more than 13 years of civil war which ended with the fall of the Assad regime last December, many communities are today confronted with a range of fundamental problems.
These include unreliable access to electricity, clean water and health care.
Destroyed records
The destruction of public files also prevents returnees from accessing essential services or claiming housing and land rights, according to the United Nations Migration Agency, OIM.
Its managing director, Amy Pope, insisted that the Syrians were resilient and innovative, but that they needed help now. “Allowing them to return to a country that is on the path of stability and progress is essential for the future of the country,” she insisted.
A new IOM report of more than 1,100 communities across Syria found that work was rare, in part because agriculture and markets are still struggling to recover.
The reconstruction of the refuge is also urgently necessary, while unresolved property problems continue to prevent people from joining their communities.
Since January 2024, the United Nations agency has recorded more than 1.3 million repatriates previously displaced within Syria, in addition to nearly 730,000 arrivals from abroad.
Who issues a warning on the epidemic of deadly seas in Saudi Arabia
A recent epidemic of coronavirus of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-COV) in Saudi Arabia raised concerns after the death of two people from the disease between March and April.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published updated directives to help contain the epidemic, which saw nine confirmed cases – seven of them in the capital, Riyadh. Several of the infected people were health workers who caught a patient’s virus.
The seas is caused by a zoonotic coronavirus, from the same family of virus as COVID-19. Although WHO estimates the mortality rate at around 36%, the real figure can be lower, because light cases are often not diagnosed.
Despite recent cases, the risk of broader propagation remains moderate at regional and global levels, according to WHO.
The seas is mainly transported by dromedary camels and can be transmitted to humans by direct or indirect contact with infected animals.
Human human transmission generally occurs in health care, via respiratory droplets or close contact.
No vaccine, no remedy
Like COVID -19, the seas cannot go from any symptoms to a serious respiratory disease, including acute respiratory distress – and in some cases death. There is currently no specific vaccine or treatment.
To prevent the virus from spreading, which urges hospitals and clinics to intensify the prevention and control measures of infections, especially when suspicious cases are treated.
Since the seas was identified for the first time in 2012, he caused 858 deaths in 27 countries in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
Call Venezuela to end the secret detention of political opponents
The main independent human rights experts have urged Venezuelan authorities to stop the indicated practice of holding political opponents of the incommunication.
On Wednesday, in an alert, they insisted that these “targeted detentions” were illegal and were equivalent to a forced disappearance, a major human rights violation if they were proven and potentially an international crime.
They argued that the use of secret detention was a deliberate state strategy “to silence opposition figures … and instill fear among the population”.
Lack of legal protection
The mission underlined a general lack of “effective judicial protection” for civil society in Venezuela and accused the state security forces of ending with the prosecutor’s office.
The services which would have been responsible for detentions include the National Intelligence Service, the National Guard and military counter-espionage.
The independent rights experts of the mission also argued that the criminal courts and the constitutional chamber of the supreme justice court were also “accomplices”, ensuring that the alleged crimes were unpunished.
The research mission on the facts on Venezuela was created by the Human Rights Council in 2019; Its members are not UN staff and they work independently.
