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Highlights
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WFP provided life-saving assistance to 235,558 highly vulnerable people in March.
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Logistics partners finalized the installation of a logistics hub in Bambari, Ouaka prefecture.
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The logistics cluster also facilitated the rehabilitation of three bridges in Ouham Pende (Bocaranga – Ngaoundaye) to increase access to vulnerable people.
Operational Updates
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WFP maintained life-saving assistance for 235,558 people across the country through general food distributions, treatment and prevention of malnutrition, food by prescription and school meals.
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Activities were implemented in the six priority prefectures with highest food insecurity rates (ENSA 2015, IPC 2016) where internally displaced people are present: Nana-Gribizi,Ouaka, Ouham, Ouham Pende, Nana Mambere and Mambere Kadei; and those hosting the refugees: Obo, Zemio and Pladama Ouaka. Malnourished children in Vakaga also received treatment for acute malnutrition.
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About 10 percent of people assisted received cash-based transfers and 90 percent benefited from in-kind food distributions.
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New wave of violence has severely slowed the delivery of food along the axis Bangui–Kaga Bandoro and Bangui-Bambari causing significant delays in the distributions.
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Logistics partners finalized the installation of a logistics hub in Bambari, Ouaka prefecture. The hub provides storage and free transport of humanitarian goods from Bambari to secondary roads in Ouaka and Haute Kotto.
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The logistic cluster also facilitated the rehabilitation of three bridges in Ouham Pende (Bocaranga – Ngaoundaye) to increase access to the people in need.
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The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) transported 1,759 passengers and 41 mt of light cargo to 31 locations in country. UNHAS also conducted six medical evacuations.