Chad: Alarmed By Plight of CAR Refugees in Chad, UN Urges Funding to Scale Up Humanitarian Response

20 March 2018

Thousands of refugees who have fled violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) to Chad are facing food and shelter shortages, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday, warning that this is the largest influx in four years into the small landlocked country.

"The worry and real risk is that food shortages for the entire population over the next month may have devastating consequences," Babar Baloch, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told the regular press briefing in Geneva, where he said that some $149 million is required to meet the urgent needs.

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