UN SCALES UP AID AS NUMBER OF DISPLACED IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC TOPS HALF A MILLION

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Date: 10 Dec 2013 13:00:00 -0500
Subject: UN SCALES UP AID AS NUMBER OF DISPLACED IN CENTRAL AFRICAN
REPUBLIC TOPS HALF A MILLION
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UN SCALES UP AID AS NUMBER OF DISPLACED IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
TOPS HALF A MILLIONNew York, Dec 10 2013 1:00PMUnited Nations
agencies are scaling up efforts to assist the scores of civilians
uprooted by the surging violence in the Central African Republic
(CAR), reported to number over 100,000 in the capital alone, bringing
the total number of those displaced since the conflict began a year
ago to over half a million.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said an estimated
108,000 people were staying in 30 locations across Bangui after being
displaced by heavy fighting between former Séléka rebels and other
militia groups, such as the anti-Balaka, last Thursday.

"This brings to more than half a million the total number of people
displaced within CAR since the crisis began in December 2012," the
agency's spokesperson in Geneva, Adrian Edwards,
<"http://www.unhcr.org/52a71db36.html">told a news conference.

Last December the Séléka rebel coalition launched a series of attacks,
culminating in March when President François Bozizé was forced to
flee. A transitional government, headed by Prime Minister Nicolas
Tiangaye, has been entrusted with restoring law and order and paving
the way for democratic elections.

However, armed clashes have recently resumed, and the country is
facing a dire humanitarian situation in which half of its population
of 4.6 million are in need of immediate assistance. Nearly 400 people
have been killed and hundreds more injured in armed clashes since last
Thursday, according to the UN humanitarian office (OCHA).

UNHCR said the internally displaced persons (IDPs) are staying mainly
in churches, mosques, public buildings and the airport. Living
conditions are "appalling" in many of the sites hosting the displaced,
particularly at the airport and at a local monastery, said Mr.
Edwards.

"People there are sleeping in the open and it is raining. Many of the
displaced spend the night in the sites, and then return home during
the day. But because they fear nightly attacks by armed elements, they
go back to the IDP sites before the 6 pm curfew."

UNHCR and its partners have been distributing tents, blankets,
sleeping mats and other relief items to ease the suffering of the
mostly women and children in the displaced sites.

Spokesperson Marixie Mercado
<"http://www.unog.ch/unog/website/news_media.nsf/(httpBriefingsLatest_en)/6B55BF83E547CF38C1257C3D003C409E?OpenDocument">said
that the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) will bring medicine and emergency
supplies to several of the sites hosting the displaced across Bangui
and to the two main hospitals that are treating the injured.

The number of displaced has also swollen in recent days in Bossangoa,
where UNICEF continues to provide safe water and emergency supplies.
UNICEF is working with partners to reach children and families with
emergency assistance where security access permits, but it is known
that 10,000 children and families had been hiding in the bush, totally
beyond reach, for months, Ms. Mercado noted.

"UNICEF repeats its appeal to leaders of all armed groups to stop
attacks on civilians, to protect hospitals and displacement camps, and
to provide the space needed for humanitarian workers to reach people
with critical assistance," she added.

To respond to immediate needs, the World Food Programme (WFP) is
<"https://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/emergency-food-assistance-reaches-people-displaced-violence-central-african-republ">providing
food assistance to affected people across the capital, as well as in
Bossangoa, the agency said in a news release.

"The humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic remains
critical and will worsen as people continue to be affected by
violence. WFP together with partners, needs to be in the frontline to
provide support and assist the most vulnerable," said Guy Adoua, WFP
Deputy Country Director.

Despite security constraints, WFP's response includes the providing
food assistance to more than 19,000 people in Bangui during the first
three days and giving cooked meals to patients at two hospitals.

In Bossangoa, activities were disrupted for four days by the most
recent wave of violence, but assistance has since resumed. On Monday,
WFP provided food to over 2,000 people and is continuing
distributions. Already this year, WFP has reached 35,000 displaced
people in the Bossangoa area with food assistance.

According to OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke, the $195 million
humanitarian appeal launched earlier this year for CAR is currently 45
per cent funded. That appeal did not take into account the latest
displacement and humanitarian consequences, he pointed out.Dec 10 2013
1:00PM
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