Extension in time for one year until 31.12.2011

This Special Operation is established to continue the provision of safe and reliable air transport services to the humanitarian community in Chad. The areas where populations in need of humanitarian assistance are living are far away from the United Nations agencies and NGOs’ field offices. Given the poor road conditions and the prevailing insecurity, travel by road is extremely risky and impracticable. Besides the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which provide passenger air service for their own staff, WFP Humanitarian Air Service (WFP HAS) remains the only safe and reliable mode of transport for the humanitarian community in Chad.

Countries

Chad

Chad is a low-income, food-deficit country, ranked  170th out of 177 countries in the 2008 UNDP Human Development Index. Chad has in the past six years hosted  around 255,000 refugees from Sudan ’s Darfur region and close to 77,000 refugees from the Central African Republic and 188,000 Chadians have been displaced b...