Progress made but Lake Chad crisis is not over, says UN relief chief, urging greater support for region

“There is still a big humanitarian crisis. [It is] not over despite the progress we have made,” UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock told a high-level humanitarian conference on the region. Last February, meeting at a UN-backed conference in Oslo, Norway, donors pledged over $650 million towards emergency assistance programmes in 2017 and beyond. These resources helped achieve a significant… Read more on https://africa-newsroom.com/press/progress-made-but-lake-chad-crisis-is-not-over-says-un-relief-chief-urging-greater-support-for-region?lang=en