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AU donates 200,000 USD to WFP for financing refugees in Lake Chad Region

Xinhua, October 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

The African Union (AU)donated 200,000 U.S. dollars to World Food Program (WFP) Thursday in N'Djamena to finance projects in favor of refugees in the Lake Chad region.

Ghana Ambassador to AU Albert Yankey said at the donating ceremony that the money will strengthen the WFP program in the fight against malnutrition, and develop school feeding program for refugees in the region.

Yankey, who conducted a humanitarian assessment mission to Bagassola, in the region of the Lake Chad Basin, said he understood the value and importance of the assistance provided by WFP and other UN agencies to displaced persons and refugees.

In this region of Chad which borders Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon, and has been struck by the atrocities of the Nigerian terrorist sect Boko Haram, WFP had set up in January 2015 an emergency operation which has provided a food and nutrition assistance to 130,000 displaced people and about 6,500 Nigerian refugees.

According to Deputy Director of WFP in Chad, Issa Sanogo, the demand is enormous in the field, but there is a shortage of finance. Endit