ABÉCHÉ, Chad, June 2 (UNHCR) -- UNHCR has begun a programme to distribute identity cards to some 110,000 Sudanese refugees over the age of 18 living in camps in eastern Chad. The ID cards are the equivalent of a refugee passport, allowing free movement within the host country and providing access to some basic rights in line with the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention.

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Sometimes when we hear about war and famine in Africa, our instinct is to turn away. Maybe it is too much. Maybe we have our own problems or think the problems in America need to be solved first.

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Washington DC -- President Obama is sending his special envoy for Sudan,
Scott Gration, to urge Sudan's leaders to let over a dozen humanitarian
aid groups resume services to families driven from their homes by the
crisis in the country's western Darfur region.

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The Sudanese government's expulsion of humanitarian aid groups from
Darfur has put thousands of displaced people at risk of death from
outbreaks of meningitis and other infectious diseases, a leading human
rights campaigner said.

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UNITED NATIONS -- A combination of stopgap measures by United Nations agencies and the Sudanese government has kept aid flowing in the world's largest relief program in Darfur, but the makeshift effort cannot be sustained, John Holmes, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator, said Tuesday.

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Reporting from Zam Zam Camp, Sudan -- Feverish and dehydrated since fleeing to this overcrowded displacement camp last month, 2-year-old Manahel Abakar was supposed to be one the beneficiaries of the International Criminal Court effort to bring justice to Darfur.

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DJABAL REFUGEE CAMP, Chad -- Mahmat Ismail Ali, 18, fled Darfur
five years ago with what remained of his family, after Sudanese rebels
attacked his village and killed his father and uncle and raped the
women. The entire village set off on foot for relative safety across
the border here in barren eastern Chad; it took them a month.

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Five accidental fires have swept through parts of two camps for
Sudanese refugees in remote eastern Chad in the past four weeks,
destroying 291 houses and leaving some 1,455 people homeless. Four of
the fires were reported in Djabal camp, near the town of Goz Beijda,
and the other in Goz Amer camp, near Koukou. The last two incidents
took place on Saturday (14 March) – one in Djabal camp and the other in
Goz Amer.