Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 22nd Nov. World Food Programme on Tuesday said that due to lack of funds it will have to halt assistance to a million people in Chad, including newly arrived refugees from Sudan.
The agencies responded to a fresh wave of displacement sparked by the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan, with reports of mass killings, rapes and widespread destruction.
The crisis is occurring amid the ongoing war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces which erupted in April.
WFP reported over 2.3 million people in Chad, including 1.3 million children, were going hungry due to climate impacts, rising food and fuel prices, declining agricultural production and intercommunal tensions.
Chad is hosting over a million refugees the largest and fastest-growing refugee populations in Africa.
Pierre Honnorat, WFP’s Country Director in Chad said “It is staggering but more Darfuris have fled to Chad in the last six months than in the preceding 20 years. We cannot let the world stand and allow our
Mr. Honnorat appealed for greater support to help Sudanese refugees who “cross the border with nothing but harrowing tales of violence.”
He warned “Cutting assistance paves the way for crises of nutrition, crises of instability, and crisis of displacement.”
WFP said it will be forced to suspend assistance to internally displaced people and refugees from Nigeria, Central African Republic and Cameroon starting in December.
The agency warned that the suspension will be extended in January to 1.4 million people across the country and new arrivals from Sudan.
It is seeking $185 million to support its operations for 6 months.
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