Latrines have yet to be dug and the desert around the camp serves as an open-air toilet. There are no blankets or mosquito nets, even though nights are cold and the area is plagued by malaria. There are similar shortages at all the hastily built camps for the 500,000 refugees who have crossed into Chad since Sudan's war erupted in April.
"I've never seen an operation at such a scale that is so poorly funded," says Pierre Honnorat, the local head of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), which warned in November that it was running out of money to feed 1.4 million people in Chad hit by the crisis.
The problem is not confined to central Africa. Across the world, aid agencies are grappling with a funding shortage as humanitarian needs are soaring. In 2023, the UN appealed for a record $51.5bn (£40.6bn) to help 339 million people, the most ever. So far it has received just 38.6% of that total.
This is the worst funding gap the humanitarian system has faced: between 2016 and 2022 the UN's appeals were 58% funded, on average. During that time, the funds given to the UN for relief work rose steadily, but last year the total amount dropped for the first time - falling from $30bn in 2022 to just over $21bn in 2023.
"The needs are simply rising faster than the money coming in," says Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the UN's humanitarian coordination office.
The human cost of the funding gap is laid out in a recent UN report.
The number of people receiving food in Afghanistan dropped from 13 million to 3 million from May to November, while in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) 600,000 malnourished children are not receiving proper treatment.
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