  First group of refugees leave Chad for new lives in US - UN
Publisher UN News Service Publication Date 23 June 2009 Cite as
UN News Service, First group of refugees leave Chad for new
lives in US - UN, 23 June 2009, available at: [accessed 14 March
2014]  As part of a United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) programme, the first group of refugees has left
Chad to begin new lives in the United States.  The 11 refugees
are the first of a total of 1,800 resettlement cases - mostly
Sudanese refugees from the war-torn Darfur region living in
camps in eastern Chad - the agency plans to identify this year.
The group - who are heading for Kentucky, Texas, Iowa and Utah -
which departed for the US by air from the Chadian capital
N'Djamena on 21 June comprise refugees from the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan and the Central African
Republic (CAR).  Currently, 250,000 refugees from Darfur are
sheltering in 12 UNHCR-run camps in Chad's east. Additionally,
70,000 CAR refugees are living in f