After touring refugee camps and crude shelters in eastern Chad over the weekend, the actress Angelina Jolie, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has issued an urgent call for funds to help bring relief to the tens of thousands of Sudanese escaping militia attacks in Darfur.
Ms. Jolie warned that UNHCR and non-government aid agencies were in "a race against time before the rainy season comes" later this month.
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