BANGUI ¨C One-in-three people in the Central African Republic are in the grips of acute hunger (IPC Phase 3 or worse), with the number set to rise in 2025 according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released this month.
DAKAR ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is ramping up its lifesaving food and nutrition assistance programme in West and Central Africa, targeting 7.3 million people during the ongoing June-August lean season ¨C when food stocks run out and hunger peaks. The programme ¨C which kicks off in June ¨C supports national governments¡¯ lean season response plans in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Nigeria.
BANGUI ¨C The Government of the Central African Republic (C.A.R) in collaboration with the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), has announced a nationwide expansion of the homegrown school meals programme targeting 400,000 children across the country. The plan was announced on Friday last week by President Faustin Archange Touadera during the commemoration of Africa Day of School Feeding at Sainte Philomene primary school in Bimbo, near C.A.R¡¯s capital, Bangui.
DAKAR ¨C With a Euro 48.5 million contribution from the European Union (EU) received through its Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO), Â鶹ÊÓƵ was able to respond to the severe food crisis in eight countries of West and Central Africa during the 2023 hunger gap and beyond.
Yaound¨¦ / Bangui ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of USD $3.3 million (equivalent to 450 million Japanese Yen, or approximately 2 billion XAF) from the Government of Japan. This funding will be used to provide integrated food and nutrition assistance to people severely affected by ongoing crisis in Cameroon and Central African Republic.
BANGUI ¨C Amidst growing humanitarian needs in the Central African Republic, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is responding to the ongoing floods in the country, rolling out assistance to 30,000 people who urgently require food assistance. Starting in July, torrential rains caused flooding in Bangui, as well as Bangassou (south-west) and Paoua (north-west) prefectures, leaving 22,450 people without homes, livelihoods, or assets. Many of those affected are sheltering with host families or in public spaces like schools or churches ¨C but meteorological services forecast more heavy rains
ROME ¨C A timely US$ 3.5 million contribution from the European Union has helped the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) transport thousands of aid workers to several hard-to-reach locations across West and Central Africa, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ said today.
BANGUI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a US$1.6 million (JPY 178 million) contribution from the Government of Japan to provide much-needed food assistance to vulnerable people in the Central African Republic, amid a deepening humanitarian crisis.
BANGUI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of US$ 2.7 million (Yen 300 million) from the Government of Japan to provide food assistance to vulnerable people including women and children affected by armed conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Central African Republic (C.A.R).
BANGUI ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed the first ever delivery of food assistance to the landlocked Central African Republic (C.A.R.) using barges along the Ubangui River from neighbouring Republic of Congo. The new supply route from Brazzaville to Bangui is an alternative and complementary supply line that will make live-saving food assistance available more quickly in C.A.R.
Geneva/ Rome - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) are warning that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters ¨C as well as supply chain challenges, rising food prices and loss of income due to COVID19 - threaten to leave millions of refugees across Africa without food.
Bangui - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of JPY 164,205,000 (US$1.5 million) from the Government of Japan to provide food and nutritional assistance to people affected by the violence in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.).
Bangui ¨C The severe humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) requires sustained international attention and an injection of funds to sustain lifesaving operations for people affected by conflict, Chris Nikoi, the Regional Director for the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in West and Central Africa warned today.
BANGUI ¨CThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed a contribution of US$ 6 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that will keep the Â鶹ÊÓƵ-managed UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) flying in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.).
BANGUI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has launched an airlift operation to deliver life-saving food supplies to 18,000 people in Zemio, 1000 km East of the capital Bangui. The region is on the brink of a severe food and nutritional crisis, due to a combination of insecurity and transport infrastructure challenges, which hamper humanitarian access to the area.
