Abidjan — The political impasse in Côte d'Ivoire is raising concerns among aid agencies about their readiness to respond to a possible humanitarian fallout, after identifying worrying capacity gaps.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) is coordinating UN agencies and NGO partners to plan humanitarian readiness in response to a possible relapse into violent conflict. Its head, Julie Bélanger, told IRIN most sectors would require significant scale-up in the event of mass population displacements.
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