The United Nations warned Friday that it would no longer be able to feed 600,000 refugees in Chad within weeks unless it receives urgent international funding. ManilaBulletin
The UN's World Food Programme said Chad was hosting the biggest refugee population in west and central Africa, with the numbers rising due to unrest in neighbouring Sudan.
"We have already done a drastic targeting to ensure that the poorest among the poor will be assisted," WFP's Chad country director Pierre Honnorat told reporters in Geneva via video-link from the capital N'Djamena. WFP wants $142.7 million for the next six months to feed all crisis-affected populations in Chad, including refugees, the 380,000 internally displaced, and other Chadians who have been hit by extreme weather in recent years.
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