Dire Humanitarian Situation in Central African Republic - UN

More than half the country's population, 3.4 million people, require assistance and protection, UN official Ag Ayoya has said.

The conflict in neighbouring Sudan has further exacerbated needs, and a U.S.$465 million humanitarian plan for the country was amended to include support for some 25,000 Sudanese and CAR nationals fleeing the fighting, as well as local communities hosting them.

Repeated military confrontations between various armed groups have uprooted one in five people from their homes, forcing them to find refuge elsewhere in the country or across the border.

Flooding in 2022 also affected more than 100,000 people, almost three times more than on previous occasions, and more than 6,000 homes were destroyed.

Ayoya also highlighted the difficulties in delivering humanitarian aid in the CAR, which "is often a race against time and a volatile security situation."

During the rainy season, large parts of the country are inaccessible by road, requiring airlifts, while "since 2022, approximately every second day, an aid worker experiences violence or a security incident, " he said.