The European Union has allocated additional €10 million in humanitarian aid to Chad, to help the country cope with the needs of the large number of people fleeing from the conflict in neighboring Sudan, according to a press release by the European Commission.
This new funding comes on top of the €7 million in humanitarian aid already pledged for actions in Chad at the high-level event held in Geneva last month, in response to the crisis in Sudan.
The funding will be used to respond to the most urgent needs of refugee populations living in extremely precarious situations, most of them women and children, including many pregnant and lactating women, said the press release.
The total funding mobilized for interventions in Chad since the beginning of the crisis in Sudan amounts now to more than €18.6 million.
This is in addition to the €39.1 million mobilized so far in 2023, in favor of the most vulnerable people in other provinces of Chad.
Additionally, a new flight of the EU Humanitarian Air Bridge (HAB) to N’Djamena has departed Friday.
This flight, the third since the launch of the HAB at the end of May, is carrying nearly 90 tons of supplies for different humanitarian partners. Out of the total cargo, 52 tons are donated by the EU from its pre-positioned stockpile in Brindisi, which will be delivered to humanitarian partners.
This Humanitarian Air Bridge is organized in the framework of the European Humanitarian Response Capacity (EHRC), which aims at filling gaps in the humanitarian response to natural and human-made disasters, added the note.
The previous two flights delivered around 180 tons of essential supplies for several partners, including medicines, shelter, water and sanitation equipment, school supplies and other non-food items.
