UN warns that food aid running out for Sudanese refugees in Chad

Sudanese patients wait under a makeshift shelter to be seen by medics at a refugee camp near Adre town in eastern Chad in August 2023. (Photo by Mohaned BELAL / AFP)

Food aid for more than half a million refugees who have fled from Sudan to Chad will run out next month without extra funding, a World Food Programme official said on Wednesday.

“By December, there will be no assistance,” Pierre Honnorat, Chad country director for the UN agency, told Reuters. “We are calling for urgent, urgent funding now.”