The EU is reaffirming its solidarity with vulnerable people in countries in the Sahel and Central Africa
through a humanitarian budget of €210 million in 2021. The funding will be allocated to humanitarian
projects in the following eight countries: Burkina Faso (€24.3 million), Cameroon (€17.5 million), the
Central African Republic (€21.5 million), Chad (€35.5 million) Mali (€31.9 million), Mauritania (€10
million), Niger (€32.3 million) and Nigeria (€37 million).
The EU's humanitarian funding in the Sahel and Central Africa countries is targeted to:
- provide life-saving assistance to the people affected by conflict and to the communities hosting people
who had to flee;
- provide protection to vulnerable people and support the respect of International Humanitarian Law and
the humanitarian principles;
- support measures to address food crises and severe acute malnutrition among children under 5;
- enhance the immediate response in terms of basic services to most vulnerable population, especially as concerns health care for all or education
for children caught up in humanitarian crises; and
- strengthen fragile communities' preparedness for crises, such as mass displacements of people, or recurrent food or climate-related crises.
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