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Even before the crisis began, 30 percent of Central Africans were food-insecure, meaning they did not access to enough and the right kinds of food Today, 2.7 million people in CAR are in need of humanitarian assistance such as food, water, shelter, and healthcare More than 560,000 people are displaced within the country 71 percent of the displaced in Bangui say they still do not feel safe enough to return home WFP is assisting 270,000 in CAR, 80 percent of which live outside of Bangui 8 in 10 school-age children are out of school CAR’s GDP shrank 30 percent in 2013 More than 300,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries since January 2014 Cameroon and Chad are each hosting more than 100,000 people, while others have taken refuge in the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) and the Congo 80 percent of refugees are women or children One third of children at transit sites in Cameroon suffer from malnutrition
