Reports

Good harvests improve the food situation despite COVID-19 and floods Key Messages Good rainfall recorded during the season, with surplus accumulations, promoted smooth progress for the 2020/2021 agropastoral season. Despite the succession of dry spells followed by flooding…

In Numbers 16,485 mt of food assistance distributed USD 633,511 cash-based transfers made USD 20.5 m six months (October 2020 – March 2021) net funding requirements 692,543 people assisted in September 2020 Operational Updates • WFP supports the Government of Chad in…

COVID-19 Extension of health state of emergency. On 16 October, the National Assembly deliberated and adopted a resolution to extend the health state of emergency from 17 October 2020 to 10 March 2021 in an effort to…

I. CONTEXT The objective of DTM’s (Displacement Tracking Matrix) Emergency Tracking Tool (ETT) is to collect information on large and sudden population movements. Following floods which have been ongoing since the end of July 2020 in N’Djamena,…

I. CONTEXTE L’outil de suivi des urgences (ETT, Emergency Tracking Tool) de la Matrice de suivi des déplacements (DTM, Displacement Tracking Matrix) a pour but de recueillir des informations sur les mouvements importants et soudains de populations.…

Situation Overview and Humanitarian Needs As of 23 September 2020, out of the total of 1,171 confirmed COVID-19 cases registered in Chad (the majority being male aged 25-59 years), seven are children. Of these seven children, two…

HEALTH SITUATION COVID-19 update As of 14 October, there have been 1,350 reported cases and 92 deaths in 17 provinces. Between 7 and 14 October, there have been 88 new cases and three deaths in N’Djamena and in the…

Nearly 5 million children need help to survive in Nigeria, Mauritania, Niger and Chad, warns Save the Children COVID-19 has deepened a food, education and healthcare crisis affecting the poorest and most vulnerable communities in four countries…

HEALTH SITUATION COVID-19 update As of 7 October, there have been 1,262 reported cases and 89 deaths in 17 provinces. Between 4 and 7 October, there have been 36 new cases in N’Djamena and in the southern provinces of…

Crisis Impact Overview Heavy rains have caused extensive flooding in Chad, Niger and Nigeria since the onset of rainy seasons in June. Chad’s rainy season, expected to last until October, is the heaviest in the past 30…