U.N. warns World Food Program operations in Chad could end over lack of funds

UN warns no more food aid cash for Sudan refugees in Chad

LIBREVILLE: The UN’s World Food Programme on Tuesday warned lack of funds threatened to halt food and nutrition assistance for more than a million people in Chad — including newly arrived Sudanese refugees. The organization said funding constraints emanating from a range of other crises including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine meant its capacity to help was spread too thin. It comes “as aid agencies scramble to respond to a fresh wave of refugee…

UN warns food aid for 1.4 million refugees in Chad could end over limited funding

Food assistance to 1.4 million refugees in Chad who fled the conflict in parts of the Sahel could end because of limited funding, the United Nations food agency warned Tuesday. Most of the refugees escaped the war in Sudan and crossed into Chad in the last six months in numbers not seen in the last ...

Food aid for 1.4 million people in Chad to ‘grind to a halt’ soon, WFP says

Food aid is due to stop in January in a country taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sudan’s war.

WFP warns food aid for 1.4 million people in Chad ‘grinding to a halt’

NEW YORK, Nov 21 — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that food aid to 1.4 million people in Chad, including newly arrived refugees fleeing violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, will cease as of January because of a shortage of funds. Financial constraints and soaring humanitarian needs have already forced the WFP to suspend assistance to internally displaced people and refugees from Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Came…

UN warns food aid for 1.4 million refugees in Chad could end over limited funding

The United Nations food agency has warned that food assistance to 1.4 million refugees in Chad, who have fled the conflict in parts of the Sahel, may end due to limited funding. Most of the refugees escaped the war in Sudan and crossed into Chad in the last six months, putting pressure on the already impoverished country. The World Food Program urgently needs $185 million to continue its support in Chad over the next six months, but without fund…

UN warns food aid for 1.4 million refugees in Chad could end over limited funding

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Food assistance to 1.4 million refugees in Chad who fled the conflict in parts of the Sahel could end because of limited funding, the United Nations food agency warned Tuesday.