CAR Crisis: Refugees And Congolese Residents Manage To Make Ends Meet
When conflict or disaster hits, local families are the primary source of refuge and comfort for the disaster/conflict-affected populations before front line humanitarian agencies like WFP can have time and resources to intervene. In DRC's northern province of Equateur several Congolese families have opened their doors to hundreds of thousands of CAR citizens who had fled scenes of horrors in their home country last year. Marie-Claire, a Congolese young mother tells us what it is to be a host family.
Central African Republic Exodus Worsens Regional Humanitarian Crisis: WFP
YAOUNDE - Ertharin Cousin, the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), said today that the exodus of approximately 296,000 people from the Central African Republic (CAR) into neighbouring Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Republic of Congo, is creating a regional crisis in countries that were already short of food.
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Congo to issue longer debt, cut reserve requirements to promote local currency
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UK urged to rise above politics and resettle more refugees
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Central African Republic On Brink Of Catastrophe
The Central African Republic is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe as violence forces more and more people to flee their homes and the national economy edges towards collapse. With local food systems breaking down, WFP and its partners are seeing cases of malnutrition multiply.
Forgotten Crisis In CAR Rapidly Deteriorating Into A Neglected Tragedy, WFP Head Warns
BANGUI - United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Ertharin Cousin today witnessed alarming food insecurity and malnutrition in Central African Republic (CAR) amid a deadly combination of violence and insufficient funding for the humanitarian response.
Congolese orphan starts a new life in US after surviving beatings and gangrene
Faustin flew recently from Malawi to a new life in the United States after being accepted for resettlement under the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Programme.
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