Yaounde — Ertharin Cousin, the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), said today that the exodus of approximately 296,000 people from the Central African Republic (CAR) into neighbouring Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Republic of Congo, is creating a regional crisis in countries that were already short of food.
"While we need the international community urgently to step up and address the disaster in CAR, international support is also required for the regional refugee crisis. We must ensure that those who survived the killings in CAR won't fall victim to malnutrition and disease in exile," said Cousin in Cameroon today, after a visit to CAR where she met people forced to flee their homes.
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