UNICEF URGES ACTION TO PREVENT CHILD DEATHS FROM MALNUTRITION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

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Date: 26 Dec 2013 14:00:00 -0500
Subject: UNICEF URGES ACTION TO PREVENT CHILD DEATHS FROM MALNUTRITION
IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
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UNICEF URGES ACTION TO PREVENT CHILD DEATHS FROM MALNUTRITION IN
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICNew York, Dec 26 2013 2:00PMThe United
Nations has voiced "extreme concern" that recent violence in the
Central African Republic (CAR) will cause a sharp increase in children
suffering severe malnutrition, putting an already vulnerable
population at further risk.

Before violence erupted earlier this month in the capital, Bangui,
almost 1,000 children were being treated for severe acute malnutrition
there. Now, only eight out of 15 nutrition centres in the city are
operating, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).

"Roughly half of the children have now resumed treatment, which in
itself is remarkable, considering the current situation, with children
and families scattered in more than 40 displacement sites,"
<"http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/media_71646.html">said UNICEF
nutrition specialist Bonaventure Muhimfura.

"But, we have to do more. It is crucial to re-open the remaining
nutrition centres as soon as possible to save children's lives."

While over 400 children have now resumed treatment for severe acute
malnutrition, UNICEF expects a significant rise in the number of
admissions to nutrition centres in the coming weeks.

The impoverished country 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. The mainly Christian anti-Balaka movement has taken up arms
and inter-communal clashes erupted in Bangui earlier this month.

Violence is continuing in the capital, the Secretary-General's Special
Representative and head of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in
CAR (BINUCA), Babacar Gaye, told UN Radio today.

"We have just spent what we could call a dramatic Christmas with an
enormous amount of violence in the city. Violence first of all against
Security Council mandated soldiers, violence between communities and
violence between armed elements from the two factions… And this
unfortunately has led to an enormous loss of life and suffering."

He added that the UN-mandated International Support Mission, an
African Union (AU) peacekeeping force known by its French acronym
MISCA, assisted by French troops, are trying to stabilize the
situation in the capital.

The recent violence has displaced some 639,000 inside the country,
according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which
noted that this includes more than 210,000 spread across 40 sites in
Bangui.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said that about 1.3
million people – more than 40 per cent of the country's rural
population – now need urgent assistance. Crop production has decreased
sharply due to conflict, and food insecurity will have a serious
impact on the nutrition status of children and women, the agency
noted.

So far in December, the World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners
have distributed nearly 500 tons of food to more than 118,000 people
in Bangui. The agency is scaling up its emergency response to provide
more than 1 million people with life-saving food support over the next
six months.Dec 26 2013 2:00PM
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