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Highlights
- The security situation in refugee-hosting areas across Vakaga, Bamingui-Bangoran, Haute Kotto, Ouaka, Mbomou, and Haute Mbomou remains highly unstable due to non-state armed groups, with reports of ongoing human rights abuses.
- This week, 345 refugees from 122 households arrived in Korsi, Birao, Vakaga prefecture—a sharp increase compared to earlier weeks. November’s weekly average of 198 arrivals is more than three times the October average of 63, nearly four times the September average of 53, and seven times the August average of 27 arrivals per week. Improved road conditions post-rainy season and the ongoing conflict in Sudan drive this surge.
- UNHCR provided core relief items to 492 refugees (169 households) in Korsi and distributed five tonnes of dry food with WFP. In Mbrès, Bamingui-Bangoran prefecture, 32 Sudanese refugees and 13 vulnerable individuals from host communities received non-food items, such as mats, 10L buckets, loincloths, and blankets.
- UNHCR and its financial partner, Ecobank, distributed multi-purpose cash assistance to 773 Sudanese refugee households and 21 Central African returnee households in Bria and Ouandja Kotto, with 431 households scheduled for next week. This marks the first such assistance in previously hard-to-reach areas.
- UNHCR’s partners, NOURRIR and International Medical Corps (IMC), under the supervision of WHO and the Vakaga Health District, conducted 745 medical consultations in Korsi, with 90 per cent of consultations serving refugees and 10 per cent of consultations serving host communities. The 89 per cent increase from last week reflects the health needs of new arrivals.