Humanitarian agencies seek extra 200 mln USD for Chad

14:07, 24 July 2009

NAIROBI. July 24. KAZINFORM The United Nations and partner humanitarian organizations in Chad have launched a revised 2009 appeal seeking an additional 200 million U.S. dollars to fund efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to more than half a million people until the end of the year, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

A statement from the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, the people in eastern and southern Chad still require humanitarian assistance as they attempt to cope with displacement effects.

Chad's 2009 Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) originally requested 389 million dollars. To date the appeal has received 204million dollars -- 51 percent of the requested total.

The funding mobilized for the first half of the year includes two million dollars provided by the OCHA-managed Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support 17,000 refugees from neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) and 5,000 members of communities hosting them.

Funds required for the second half of the year will be used to implement 86 humanitarian projects submitted by nine United Nations agencies and 16 non-governmental organizations.

Chad hosts a total of 340,000 refugees from CAR and Sudan and 171,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs). Returns of IDPs to their places of origin have begun in the east of the country, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.

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