Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic (the), Chad, Congo (the), Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo (the), Gambia (the), Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger (the), Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
CERF disburses over $164.5 million in 2012 for emergency humanitarian response in West and Central Africa
The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocated, over the last three months, a total of $ 8.7 million to Cameroon, Mauritania, Niger, Chad and Togo. More than $ 5.4 million were disbursed for floods in Chad ($ 3.1 million), Cameroon (2 million) and Niger (359,170 dollars), while 1.5 million was granted to fight locust threats in Mauritania and Chad. Togo received $ 1 million to address the needs of Ghanaian refugees and host communities in the north and Mauritania received over 720,000 dollars to control Rift Valley fever.
