The recent influx of 70,000 refugees from Sudan into the Central African Republic (CAR) appears to have compounded the country’s existing humanitarian challenges.
Development Diaries reports that CAR is already grappling with poverty and the impacts of climate change, with nearly 130,000 people requiring immediate humanitarian assistance.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported in August that more than one in five Central Africans were displaced either within CAR or in neighbouring countries.
It is understood that a significant proportion of the country’s population continues to experience a humanitarian crisis with critical humanitarian needs as a result of the underlying socio-political conflict.
This is especially evident outside of urban centres, where there is ongoing violence against residents and insecurity that forces citizens to flee their homes.
Also, CAR, according to OCHA, has one of the highest proportions of critically food-insecure people in the world, with 50 percent of the population not eating enough.
Furthermore, there are frequent clashes between various armed groups over possession of resources even as extortion, illegal taxes, and other human rights breaches continue to affect the populace on a daily basis.
Development Diaries calls on international donors to provide more funding to CAR to enable the country to confront the activities of armed groups and provide basic necessities for its citizens.
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