PHOTOS, VIDEO: Hungary helps Chad in many ways

The Hungarian government’s humanitarian development programme in Chad will be concluded on Saturday, a government official said on Friday.

Tristan Azbej, the foreign ministry’s state secretary in charge of aid to persecuted Christians, told MTI by phone from Chad that Hungarian doctors had worked with refugees from Cameroon and the Central African Republic in the south Chad.

Meanwhile, employees of the Gödöllő Agricultural University have been working on establishing a model farm for draught-resilient produce, he said.

Under the diplomatic mission of the programme, Hungary and Chad have concluded the first bilateral agreement of their history, Azbej said. The agreement is on cooperation between the Hungary Helps programme and Chad’s agency for asylum seekers and those returning to the country, he added.

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Hungary helps in Chad

Chad is currently housing one million refugees, “and it could become a source of migration itself”, Azbej said.

Chad, the “last stable stronghold” in the Sahel, is surrounded by armed conflicts and military coups in the region.

Chad is also in a difficult situation with one-third of its 18 million inhabitants needing humanitarian aid, and with the Boko Haram terrorist organisation wreaking havoc, adding masses of internally displaced people to the one million refugees arriving from abroad, he said.

The Hungary Helps programme, while recognises that “we are responsible for preventing such suffering”, also serves Hungary’s interests by preventing further waves of migration towards Europe by ways of providing help in Chad itself, said Azbej.