Press Release: Commission to boost support for refugees and displaced people in Chad and the Central African Republic

The European Commission will contribute more than €50 million to a joint UN and EU initiative in Eastern Chad and the North East of the Central African Republic. The Commission will support a police mission which will have the task of assisting in protecting the refugee camps near the Darfur border and in creating security conditions for the return of the displaced persons. The EC will finance substantial rehabilitation and reconstruction work in the zones of return for the displaced persons. Humanitarian assistance to the vulnerable people affected by the ongoing crisis will continue.

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