(VOVworld) – The UN called for more financial support from international community and donors to deal with humanitarian crisis in Lake Chad Basin region in Africa.

Stephen O’Brien, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief. (Photo: UN File)

At an international conference on humanitarian aids in New York on the sideline of the UN summit on sustainable development, UN Humanitarian Coordinator Stephen O'Brien, called on the international community to get involved in solving the humanitarian crisis in Lake Chad, which is considered center of violence and terrorism. Mr. Stephen O'Brien said around 1 million people have left their homeland to flee to neighboring countries. He asked regional countries to provide more aid workers at site to assist the refuges.