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Chadian Authorities Declare Food Emergency - Reports

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Chadian authorities have declared a food emergency to provide humanitarian aid to vulnerable populations, Chadian news outlet Tchadinfos reported on Friday.
The authorities have set up a technical unit to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the decree, which was published on Thursday, the report said.
Chad is one of the poorest countries in the world, with low levels of development and humanitarian problems.
The European Commission said in January that about 7.6 million people required humanitarian assistance in 2023. Projections for 2024 indicate that 1.7 million children under the age of five will be acutely malnourished.
The humanitarian situation has been also complicated by the influx of more than 600,000 refugees from neighboring Sudan, which is engulfed in a civil war.
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