The United Nations World Food Programme said on Thursday it urgently requires $162.4 million to support the government of Chad in assisting 2.3 million people in urgent need of food, including over 30,000 who recently fled the conflict in Sudan.
The WFP said it was responding to growing food needs in Chad, but financing shortfalls meant food assistance for refugees and internally displaced people will come to a complete halt this month if no additional funds arrive.
"We need urgent funding to provide rapid food assistance to all vulnerable people in the country," Pierre Honnorat, WFP's country director in Chad, said in a statement.
