UNHCR recalls staff from Chad border after air strikes in Darfur

from UNHCR

The UN refugee agency on Tuesday morning recalled staff from a section of eastern Chad's border with Sudan after earlier air strikes against targets just across the frontier in West Darfur.

The nine staff members were caring for newly arrived Sudanese refugees in the Birak area. "It is extremely frustrating to have to withdraw staff from the border . . . It is not only sad, but frustrating, because we cannot provide the protection assistance we wish to give to these newly arrived refugees," said Jorge Holly, head of the UNHCR field office in the eastern Chad town of Guereda.

"I want to send my staff back to the border as soon as the security situation allows; there is so much we have to do for these people," Holly added.

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