Lake Chad Basin: Crisis Update No. 20 (September - October 2017)

REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Food security improves in parts of north-east Nigeria thanks to relief assistance

• Forty per cent of children under five in Cameroon’s Far North region are struck by chronic malnutrition

• Malnutrition worsens in Chad. Twelve regions declared to be in nutritional crisis

• Attacks displace 1,700 in Cameroon’s Far North region

• Concern over civilian protection after withdrawal of Chadian troops from Niger

• Fodder deficit in parts of Diffa could drop below last year’s 2-million-ton shortfall

• Hepatitis E outbreak in Diffa yet to be brought under control

• U$545 million needed for humanitarian response until the end of the year.

• Humanitarian needs to remain high in 2018 and beyond