U.N. warns World Food Program operations in Chad could end over lack of funds
- The United Nations food agency warns that limited funding may cause food assistance to 1.4 million refugees in Chad to end.
- The World Food Programme urges collective support to prevent life-saving operations from halting in Chad. Malnutrition is a major concern for nine out of ten new arrivals.
- Due to insufficient funds, the WFP has already suspended assistance to internally displaced people and refugees from Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Cameroon, with further cuts expected in Chad from January.
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N'Djamena (agencies) The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned yesterday that food assistance provided to 1.4 million people in Chad, including refugees who have recently arrived after fleeing violence in the Darfur region in Sudan, will stop as of next January due to lack of funds. He added that financial constraints and increasing humanitarian needs have already made the World Food Programme (WFP) obliged to suspend its assistance t…
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 ...
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. 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 20 years, the U.N.’s World Food Program said in a statement. “This forgotten crisis has metastasized as the world’s eyes are o…
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…
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