The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, reported on Wednesday that most of the newcomers are women and children.
Many have come from Zamzam Camp and the city of El Fasher, locations targeted by paramilitary rapid support forces who have fought for the military government’s forces for more than two years.
In Tchad, the high number of those arriving are significant strain on overwhelmed resources.
Exhausted and victim
Relief teams say many refugees arrive exhausted after walking for several days because they can’t afford transport.
They report being victims of targeted attacks, looting and sexual violence.
Numerous children have been wounded, families separate, and others remain missing, the refugee agency said.
Instant needs in tchad include shelter, food, medical treatment and psychological support, but the $ 409 million refugees -response appeal is only 20 percent funded.
Syria’s returning desperately need help starting over
Syrians trying to rebuild their lives in their war -hired country are urgent needing support from the rest of the world to help them start again, UN’s aid agencies said Wednesday.
The hopes rose this week in Damascus after Donald Trump’s steps 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 today face a number of fundamental problems.
These include unreliable access to electricity, clean water and healthcare.
Registrations destroyed
The destruction of public records also prevents recurring from accessing important services or demanding housing and land rights, according to the UN migration agency, IOM.
Its Director General, Amy Pope, insisted that Syrians were resilient and innovative, but that they needed help now. “To enable (them) to return to a country that is on its way to stability and progress is critical of the country’s future,” she insisted.
A new IOM report from more than 1,100 communities throughout Syria found that work is scarce, partly because agriculture and markets are still struggling to recover.
Ly build -up is also needed for urgent, while unresolved property issues continue to prevent people from joining forces with their community.
Since January 2024, the UN Agency has registered more than 1.3 million returned previously displaced in Syria, in addition to almost 730,000 arrivals from abroad.
Who emits warning of deadly mers -outbreaks in Saudi -Arabia
A recent outbreak of the Middle East-Repiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (Mers-Cov) in Saudi Arabia has raised concerns after two people died of the disease between March and April.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released updated guidelines to help contain the outbreak that has seen nine confirmed cases – seven of them in the capital, Riyadh. Several of the infected were health workers who caught the virus from a patient.
Mers is caused by a zoonotic coronavirus from the same family of viruses as Covid-19. While WHO estimates mortality to be about 36 percent, the true number can be lower as mild cases often go undiagnosed.
Despite the recent cases, the risk of wider spread is moderate at both regional and global levels, according to WHO.
Mers are primarily carried by droma -dear camels and can be transferred to humans through direct or indirect contact with infected animals.
Human-to-human transmission usually occurs in health environment, through airway drops or close contact.
No vaccine, no cure
Like Covid-19, Mers can range from no symptoms at all to severe respiratory disease, including acute airway-and in some cases dead. There is currently no vaccine or specific treatment.
To prevent the virus from spreading, calling on hospitals and clinics to increase prevention and control measures for infection, especially where suspected cases are being dealt with.
Since Mers was first identified in 2012, it has caused 858 deaths in 27 countries in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
Call Venezuela to end the secret detention of political opponents
Top Independent Human Rights experts have called on the Venezuelan authorities to stop the reported practice of keeping political opponents incommunicado.
In a warning on Wednesday, they insisted that these “targeted detentions” were illegal and constituted enforced disappearance, a major violation of human rights if proven and potentially an international crime.
They maintained that using secret detention was a deliberate strategy from the state “to dampen opposition figures … and to give fear among the population”.
Lack of legal protection
The mission pointed to a widespread lack of “effective legal protection” for civil society in Venezuela and accused government security forces to collide with the public prosecutor’s office.
The services allegedly responsible for detention include National Intelligence Service, National Guard and Military Counterintelligence.
The mission’s independent rights experts also maintained that criminal courts and the constitutional chamber of the supreme court court were also “accomplices” by ensuring that the alleged crimes were unpunished.
Actual mission at Venezuela was created by Human Rights Council in 2019; Its members are not UN staff and they work in an independent capacity.
