June 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The transitional Prime Minister of Chad, Saleh Kebzabo, has asked the international community for urgent help to deal with the more than 400,000 Sudanese refugees who are currently in the east of the country after escaping the bloody fighting that has been going on since 15 the Sudan Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as well as the historic conflict in Darfur.
In a meeting before international diplomatic representatives, the Prime Minister has requested on behalf of the Chadian Government the arrival of “enormous technical and financial aid from the countries represented here”; a request that he has extended “to any NGO, economic operator or Chadians of good will”.
“Right now we have 400,000 people on the eastern border and we understand that the mobilization of the international community in the face of this humanitarian tragedy is not up to the level of what we have observed in other countries,” the Prime Minister lamented this past Saturday in statements collected by the Al Wihda portal and Radio France Internationale (RFI).
It must be remembered that Chad is currently under the control of a military junta led by Mahamat Idriss Déby, whose figure has been the subject of protests after he decided to extend his mandate — granted by the Army in 2021 after the death of his father, Idriss Déby Itno, who had led the country since 1990 — another two years before the elections.
According to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the country, with few resources, faces even higher levels of malnutrition due to the difficulty of “earning a living” in the rainy season, the “soaring prices” of food and other products basic and “recurring outbreaks” of diseases.
In this sense, the Chadian prime minister recalled that the country has to deal with other displacement crises such as the one that is happening in the northwest, where thousands of people are fleeing the abuses of the jihadist group Boko Haram, and in the south, with those from of the Central African Republic. In the west, thousands of Cameroonians have taken refuge with Chadian populations because of the longstanding inter-communal conflict in the Far North region of Cameroon.