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Highlights
- The Eastern Chad crisis, which began in April 2023, has escalated in 2024 with significant developments, including intensified fighting around El Fasher, Sudan, and an ongoing famine in Sudan. UNICEF strengthened its response with a shift towards the triple nexus approach.
- Between July and December 2024, heavy rains caused flooding in all 23 provinces of Chad and affected 1,941,869 people, causing 576 fatalities.
- UNICEF reached 274,099 children with measles vaccination (135,334 children in Eastern Chad); provided 329,529 people with safe drinking water (76,208 people in Eastern Chad); supported 116,672 children and caregivers (61,889 children in Eastern Chad) with mental health and psychosocial services and distributed individual education materials to 103,439 children (9,372 in Eastern Chad).
- As a response to the state of food and nutrition emergency that the government declared nationwide, UNICEF treated 459,022 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), including 63,863 children in Eastern Chad.