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Central African Republic - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #8, Fiscal Year (FY) 2015

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HIGHLIGHTS

  • Armed groups kidnap aid workers and a UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in CAR (MINUSCA) staff member

  • An estimated 30,000 CAR refugees flee southern Ouaka Prefecture for northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

  • The USAID-funded Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET) reports continued Crisis and Emergency—IPC 3 and 4—levels of food insecurity*

KEY DEVELOPMENTS

  • On January 23, UNHCR and 18 humanitarian partner organizations established the 2015 CAR Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP). The RRRP requests $331 million to provide assistance to an estimated 460,000 refugees from CAR in neighboring countries through December 2015. Currently, more than 10 percent of CAR’s entire population of 4.5 million is displaced in Cameroon, Chad, DRC, and the Republic of Congo.

  • The humanitarian community in CAR cautions that the complex emergency has had a significantly detrimental effect on families’ ability to procure sufficient food. Separate assessments and monitoring reports released by WFP, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and FEWS NET indicate that the precariousness of agricultural and livelihoods conditions, coupled with persistent displacement and insecurity, will likely cause prolonged—and potentially deteriorated—food security conditions in the coming months.