At the donors' conference in Oslo organised by the UN, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Sytlianides announced on Friday 24 February that the EU is to mobilise €105 million in humanitarian aid to help the countries of the Lake Chad region overcome the wide-scale humanitarian crisis they are facing.
A sum of €55 million from this amount had already been committed by the Commission for 2017, €40 million of which has already been disbursed (see...