RCA: L’ONU sollicite 9,1 millions
de dollars pour les victimes de la guerre
Nations Unies, IRIN, 05 mai 2003,
01:08:44 - Le système des Nations Unies
en République centrafricaine (RCA) a lancé mercredi un appel aux donateurs pour
un montant de 9,1 millions de dollars (des É.-U.) afin de venir en aide aux deux
tiers des 3,7 millions d’habitants du pays qui ont été directement touchés par
la guerre.
Cette somme permettra d’améliorer la prestation de soins de santé, la sécurité
alimentaire, la protection des gens et la coordination des activités
humanitaires pour 2,2 millions de bénéficiaires, dont 400 000 sont des enfants
de moins de cinq ans et 600 000, des femmes en âge de procréer.
En décomposant les chiffres, on apprend que le système de santé recevrait 3,06
millions de dollars, le secteur de l’alimentation, 4,85 millions, la protection
humanitaire, 220 000 dollars, et les autres activités humanitaires, 974 000
dollars. Ces programmes de secours d’urgence, d’une durée de trois mois, visent
les régions du nord et de l’est les plus durement ravagées par la guerre,
régions qui sont demeurées isolées du reste de la RCA pendant les combats. Par
la suite, un appel consolidé inter-agences des Nations Unies, pour une durée de
six à douze mois, sera lancé en incluant un éventail plus large de formes
d’aide. [Article complet sur
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CENTRAL AFRICAN
REPUBLIC: UN in US $9.1-million appeal for war victims
BANGUI, 2 May 2003
(IRIN) - The UN system in the Central African Republic
(CAR) appealed to donors on Wednesday for US $9.1 million to help two-thirds of
the country's 3.7 million people directly affected by war.
The money will be to improve health delivery, food security, human protection
and the coordination of humanitarian activities for the 2.2 million
beneficiaries, 400,000 of whom are children under five years old and 600,000
women of child-bearing age.
Broken down, the health sector will receive $3.06 million, the food sector $4.85
million, humanitarian protection $220,000 and other humanitarian activities
$974,000.
The emergency programmes, which target the war-ravaged north and east of the
country, which were isolated from the rest of the CAR during the fighting, are
scheduled to last three months, after which an inter-UN agency consolidated
appeal is to be launched with a much wider scope of aid to last between six and
12 months.
The UN Children's Fund and the UN World Health Organisation - in partnership
with international NGOs - will be dealing with health operations, which will
include emergency immunisation, provision of curative care, facilitating access
to safe drinking water, and an anti-HVI/AIDS campaign.
At the same time, the UN Population Fund will provide reproductive health kits
and psychotherapeutic support for rape victims.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) will focus on food security.
The UN estimates there are 1.4 million vulnerable people in the CAR, including
"about 1.2 million in need of emergency food rations".
While the WFP will distribute food, the FAO will provide 150,000 farmers with
seeds to cover 90,000 ha, to safeguard the agricultural season that normally
begins in April-May. The north of the country is the CAR's granary, and the
six-month war that affected it has led to price increases.
CAR has been through several military crises since the mid-1990s. In the latest
of these, which started in October 2002, the former army chief of staff,
Francois Bozize, overthrew President Ange-Felix Patasse on 15 March. Inhabitants
in the north of the country were badly affected, and the easternmost part
isolated from supply routes.
As a result, hundreds of thousands of people fled to the bush, while private and
public buildings, including schools and health facilities, were looted. In its
appeal for funds, the UN system says 58 nursery schools for 1,779 infants, 891
primary schools for 152,443 children, and 40 secondary schools were looted or
destroyed. Teachers and pupils have fled the region, which will most likely
result in an invalid school year.
Since October 2002, there has been no large-scale humanitarian operation in the
country's war-affected areas.
The UN system has asked the current government to restore security in the
countryside so that humanitarian workers can intervene urgently. There have been
widespread reports of the presence of remnant pockets of Congolese fighters,
with highway robbers still roaming the north and terrorising the public.
The Congolese were members of the rebel Mouvement de liberation du Congo (MLC)
from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whom Patasse had invited in to help
him put down Bozize's rebellion.
The continuing presence of these stragglers - left behind when the MLC pulled
back to the DRC - has prevented many thousands of displaced people from
returning home.
Bozize has now appointed governors to the troubled regions in an effort to
reassert government authority and restore security.
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