Highlights
As of 21 September, OCHA reported that 68,000 people have fled their homes since July (IDPs, Chadian returnees and refugees from Nigeria and from Niger): amongst them 47,000 are IDPs.
Successive attacks on 22, 23 and 29 September, followed by a request by the Chadian Army to leave the area, have caused the internal displacement of several thousand people. The population of 23 villages on the islands that surround Litri is believed to have fled to a locality 18 kilomenters west of Ngouboua. Other village attacks followed by population movements were reported in Kallam and in Bikaram on 23 and 28 September respectively.
By the end of August, 101,555 children with severe acute malnutrition, or 66% of the revised annual target, were admitted to treatment in UNICEF-supported facilities throughout the Sahel belt.
Prepositioning of suppliesin the lake island of Tchoukoutalia enabled UNICEF partners to distribute WASH kits to 6,700 people in midSeptember despite access difficulties.
Sanitation remains one of big gaps in the emergency response due to lack of funding. 74 latrines have been constructed by UNICEF partners, 45 in the Bagasola IDP sites of Dar Al Naim, Kafia and Kousseri, and 29 latrines in the sites around the town of Bol for the community-led total sanitation in Yakoua, Kaya, Tchika and Ngorerom. More than a thousand latrines are still needed.
UNICEF Chad’s 2015 revised Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) of $62.2 million was still 83% unfunded as of end of September. Of the $10.6 million received so far this year, 56% was for the response to the Sahel nutritional needs and 29% for the response to the emergency needs linked to the Nigeria crisis in the Lake Chad region.