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Aid groups dispute extent of emergency in the eastern Chad
New findings question the extent of a nutritional crisis among the estimated 150,000 internally displaced people scattered in sites around eastern Chad yet even as aid agencies in the area publicly dispute each others' malnutrition data, all agree that the spat must not distract attention from the hardship people there are suffering.
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.
