Date: 13 Aug 2013 12:00:00 -0400
Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: UN AGENCIES PROVIDE AID AMID
WIDESPREAD LAWLESSNESS
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: UN AGENCIES PROVIDE AID AMID WIDESPREAD
LAWLESSNESSNew York, Aug 13 2013 12:00PM
United Nations humanitarian agencies today voiced deep concern over
the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR), where hundreds of
thousands of people continue to be affected by lawlessness and
insecurity, and widespread fear is reported among residents.
Adrian Edwards, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), said the agency was continuing to see "forced displacement"
within and from CAR.
"Inside CAR itself there are now an estimated 206,000 internally
displaced people," Mr. Edwards
<"http://www.unhcr.org/520a28459.html">told journalists in Geneva.
"Since mid-July we have seen an additional 4,125 refugees arriving in
the Moissala area of southern Chad."
Nearly 63,000 refugees have fled to neighbouring countries since the
latest political crisis in the country erupted in December last year,
according to UNHCR. Some 40,500 people have fled to the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), while another 13,000 have gone to Chad.
Violence erupted in December 2012 when the Séléka rebel coalition
launched a series of attacks. A peace agreement was reached in
January, but the rebels again seized Bangui in March, forcing
President François Bozizé to flee.
"UNHCR is again calling on the CAR Government to do more to ensure the
safety of people and their property across the country, to avert
further displacement and suffering," Mr. Edwards stressed.
He also noted that night attacks in Bangui, the capital, have become
increasingly common, including among aid workers who are threatened,
robbed and injured.
"In rural areas, widespread fear is reported among the civilian
population, who are responding in some cases by organizing vigilante
groups," Mr. Edwards said.
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) said that unless access to
health services improves in the country, children and women will be at
risk of contracting communicable diseases and there may be a
resurgence of cases of malnutrition among children under the age of 5.
WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said 70 per cent of people in the
country lack access to health services, based on a rapid evaluation
exercise.
"Many health facilities were not functioning due to looting, movement
of health workers, non-payment of wages and breach of the medicines
supply chain," he said.
Meanwhile, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said its emergency teams
have been working for the past few weeks to restart health services in
Kaga Bandoro and Bambari, two of the districts where health facilities
had been looted and immunization chains destroyed.
The teams "represented the first extended United Nations presence in
the conflict-ravaged interior of the country since December last
year," said spokesperson Marixie Mercado.
She added that emergency teams are working in every location it was
safe for them to be in.
Funding remains a problem for UN humanitarian agencies and their
partners, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The $195 million humanitarian appeal for
CAR is only 32 per cent funded, having received $62 million so far. Of
that, 23 per cent was carry-over from last year.
OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke said some sectors were particularly
poorly funded or not funded at all, particularly the Early Recovery
and Emergency Shelter sector and the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
sector.
In addition, the 30 project proposals submitted mainly by
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), but also by UN agencies, to
improve vulnerable people's access to safe water and proper sanitation
did not receive any funding.
The UN Security Council in New York is scheduled to discuss the
situation in CAR tomorrow.Aug 13 2013 12:00PM
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