Dakar - “It is unfair to the beneficiaries to go on in this battle of numbers,” said Alessandro Loretti, the World Health Organization (WHO) coordinator of emergency response and operations, who recently returned from Chad. “The fact is that we have a critical situation on our hands. There is no reason for complacency.”
A dozen international NGOs are working in the vast wilderness of eastern Chad to provide emergency shelters, food, and water, even while attacks continue by various rebel and other armed groups and the rainy season makes many of the already isolated areas harder to reach.
With the logistical difficulties that NGOs face, reliable data has been difficult to obtain.
