Sudan: 'New Refugees in Chad Receive Blankets but No Food' - Camp Coordinator

4 February 2014

Touloum — 135 families from North Darfur who reached the Touloum refugee camp in eastern Chad in September last year do not have access to food.

Ahmed Abakar Shatta, the coordinator of new refugees at the Touloum refugee camp told Radio Dabanga that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Chad National Committee for the Reception of Refugees on Monday distributed to these families, originally from El Sareif Beni Hussein, sheets, blankets, and mattresses, household utensils, and mosquito nets. The families also received refugee identity cards.

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