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Food aid for 1.4 million people in Chad to ‘grind to a halt’ soon, WFP says

A Sudanese woman who fled the conflict in el-Geneina in Sudan's West Darfur state crossed the border to Ourang on the outskirts of Adre, Chad [File: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says food aid to 1.4 million people in Chad, including newly arrived refugees fleeing violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, will end in January because of a shortage of funds.

Financial constraints and soaring humanitarian needs have already forced the WFP to suspend assistance to internally displaced people and refugees from Nigeria, Central African Republic and Cameroon from December, it said.

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