RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will host a donors’ conference to support displaced people and refugees in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin at the headquarters of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah on Saturday.
The conference is being held in coordination with King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
A high-level session on the challenges of the humanitarian situation in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin, with the participation of a number of prominent speakers, will be held at the conference.
The conference aims to achieve a number of goals including raising awareness of the displacement and asylum crisis in the Sahel and Lake Chad region and mobilizing financial resources for the immediate humanitarian response to this crisis and any future challenges in this region.
The Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha are expected to address the conference’s opening session, the OIC said.
