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UN official appeals to donors to aid 53,000 displaced by attacks on Lake Chad islands

Dec 11, 2015, at 03:05 pm

New York, Dec 11 (Just Earth News/IBNS): More than 50,000 people forced to flee in the wake of attacks on islands of Lake Chad are living in “precarious conditions” in need of food, drinking water, shelter, health care and other services in a situation exacerbated by chronic drought, the top United Nations relief official in Chad says.