UN's World Food Program Faces $185M Funding Shortfall, Threatening Aid to Chad

The shortfall could halt aid to 1.4 million people, including refugees from the Darfur crisis, exacerbating one of Africa's largest refugee crises.

The World Food Program (WFP) warns that a $185 million funding shortfall could force it to suspend aid to internally displaced people and refugees in Chad from December, and to a further 1.4 million people across Chad in January.
Chad is currently hosting one of the 'largest and fastest-growing' refugee crises on the African continent, with an influx of refugees from the ongoing conflict in the neighboring Darfur region of Sudan.
Since May, as many Sudanese refugees have fled to Chad as in the two decades since the Darfur crisis began in 2003, leading to 'brutal choices' about who to help due to insufficient funds.
The WFP highlights that people in Chad are victims of the climate crisis, geopolitical events driving up food and fuel prices, falling agricultural output, and internal conflict, exposing millions to acute food insecurity and malnutrition.
The latest Emergency Food Security Assessment for Eastern Chad found that 90% of newly arrived refugees, 77% of existing refugees, and 67% of locals were not getting enough food to eat.