JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia is hosting donors' conference to support displaced persons and refugees in Sahel and Lake Chad Basin on Saturday, Oct. 26. Saudi Arabia, represented by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), will organize the conference, in cooperation with Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and in coordination with United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah. The conference is convened in response to the severe humanitarian crises in Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Mali. The conference comes within the framework of implementing the decision of the 49th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OIC member countries. The conference will witness a high-level session on the challenges of the humanitarian situation in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin, with the participation of several prominent speakers. It also aims to achieve several objectives, the most important of which are: raising awareness of the displacement and asylum crisis in the Sahel and Lake Chad regions and mobilizing financial resources for the immediate humanitarian response to this crisis and any future challenges in this important part of the African continent.
