FAMINE AND MALNUTRITION STALK STRIFE-TORN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, UN AGENCIES WARN

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Date: 31 Dec 2013 12:00:00 -0500
Subject: FAMINE AND MALNUTRITION STALK STRIFE-TORN CENTRAL AFRICAN
REPUBLIC, UN AGENCIES WARN
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FAMINE AND MALNUTRITION STALK STRIFE-TORN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, UN
AGENCIES WARNNew York, Dec 31 2013 12:00PMUnited Nations agencies
today warned of possible famine and severe malnutrition in the Central
African Republic (CAR), calling on donors to provide urgent funding to
mitigate the crisis in the impoverished country where a year of
conflict has already killed thousands of people and driven 750,000
others from their homes.

"We urgently need support from donors so we won't start running out of
food in January," the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Director
for West Africa, Denise Brown,
<"https://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/wfp-aims-feed-125-million-people-central-african-republic-needs-almost-us107-milli">said
in Bangui, the capital of CAR. "We are providing food for hungry
people wherever we can in CAR. But insecurity is the biggest
challenge."

With the coming harvest threatened since farmers have fled their lands
or lack seeds due to looting and because people have had to eat them
instead of saving them for planting, the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) and WFP have launched a 100-day response plan to
boost nutrition and restore agricultural production through seed
distribution and storage facilities.

But so far FAO has only been able to raise $4.3 million of the $61
million needed to help 1.8 million people, out of a total population
of 4.6 million.

"The success of the next planting season crucially hinges on the
return of farming families to the fields," FAO said in a news release.
"Families who are unable to plant in March will have to wait one whole
year before they can hope to harvest again. Failure to help these
families will have dramatic consequences on the food security for a
quarter of the Central African population.

"The low production perceived from the last harvest coupled with a
prevailing situation of chronic country-wide malnutrition is setting
the stage for a full-scale food and nutrition security crisis should
the next planting season fail."

CAR has been thrown into turmoil since mainly Muslim Séléka rebels
launched attacks a year ago and forced President François Bozizé to
flee in March. A transitional government has since been entrusted with
restoring peace and paving the way for democratic elections, but armed
clashes have erupted again and the mainly Christian anti-Balaka
movement has taken up arms.

Earlier this month Christians and Muslims launched reprisal attacks
against each other in and around Bangui, where some 210,000 people
were driven from their homes.

"The combination of food shortages and poor sanitary conditions in the
camps and deep in the bush, as well as extreme poverty, risk
triggering serious malnutrition," FAO Country Representative Alexis
Bonte <"http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/211831/icode/">said
following a visit to Bossangoa, 160 miles north of Bangui, on Sunday.

WFP, which has appealed for $107 million through August 2014 to assist
1.25 million people, has called on all parties to ensure the safe and
unhindered access of humanitarian personnel and the timely delivery of
aid to people in need wherever they are. "WFP is neutral and delivers
assistance solely on the basis of need," Ms. Brown said.

Despite the volatile security situation, WFP and its partners have
assisted more than 237,000 people since 5 December, and from January
to April will increase food distributions, provide supplementary
feeding to combat malnutrition among children under five, and aid
vulnerable groups. From May to August, it will also reach more people
in need during the lean season when the last harvest runs out.

The new emergency operation specifies that because of security risks,
food distributions will be undertaken by teams moving swiftly from
site to site and able to adjust plans. To avoid putting people in need
of assistance at risk, a protection analysis will be conducted in each
place. In some locations, cooked meals may be provided to help protect
women and children.

Earlier this month WFP launched a special operation to deploy more
staff, set up local offices, obtain vital security and
telecommunications equipment and support establishing cross-border
humanitarian flights into CAR at a cost of $5.3 million through
June.Dec 31 2013 12:00PM
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