He is warning that international aid is falling short as conditions worsen on the ground.

Grandi, who recently toured eastern Chad, one of the hardest-hit regions absorbing Sudanese refugees, painted a grim picture of what he described as a "dire and deteriorating" humanitarian situation.

“The food supply is running dangerously low,” he told the BBC, “and we simply don’t have the resources to drill boreholes for clean water.”

Since civil war erupted in Sudan nearly two years ago, millions have been forced to abandon their homes. Chad, already facing its own development challenges, has become a major host country for those displaced. But local communities, many of them struggling with poverty themselves, are being pushed to their limits.

Grandi said both refugees and their hosts are in desperate need of assistance and urged the international community to respond with greater urgency.

“These people need everything – shelter, medicine, food,” he said. “And very often the community that is hosting them are as poor and as vulnerable as they are. So, in fact, what we have been doing , the aid community and the government here, we have tried to mobilise resources for both Chad and the refugees.”

--ChannelAfrica--