The UAE has announced it is launching humanitarian projects in Chad, plus a $10.25 million (Dh37.6 million) donation towards the UN's efforts supporting Sudanese refugee women affected by the continuing situation in the country.
In April, the UAE pledged $100 million at the Paris Donors Conference, with 70 per cent directed to international humanitarian organisations and the remaining to support Sudanese refugees in neighbouring countries, such as Chad, Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Lana Nusseibeh, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Special Envoy of the Foreign Minister, made the announcement on Friday during a visit to Chad, where she met with Sudanese refugee women, civil society leaders and UN agencies. She also met with Fatime Aldjineh Garfa, Minister Delegate to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Bachar Ali Souleymane, Governor General of Ouaddai Province.
The UAE delegation visited a refugee assistance centre, as well as the UAE-built Abeche Field Hospital, where Sudanese refugees fleeing conflict can seek medical treatment. The money allocated to UN agencies will go specifically to those specialised in providing aid to women.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, $3 million will be allocated to the WHO for maternal and child health, $2 million to the UN Population Fund for women's health and sexual-and-gender-based-violence programme for Sudanese refugees in Chad, and $3 million to the UN High Commissioner Refugees for social cohesion programming between Sudanese refugee women and Chadian women in the host community.
A further $2 million will be allocated to the UN Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund that provides direct funding for women-led civil society groups.
Chad has registered more than 630,700 Sudanese refugees since April 2023, with 83 per cent of those fleeing being women and children. The war broke out in April last year after weeks of rising tension between the army and the RSF over their future role in Sudan.
The conflict has had a devastating effect on the vast Afro-Arab nation of 50 million people. More than half are now facing acute hunger as a result.
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