IN 2023 ONE IN FOUR PEOPLE WILL NEED HUMANITARIAN AID
With the launch of the Global Humanitarian Overview, humanitarian organizations estimate that in 2023 one in four people – over 26.4 million Congolese – will need support to rebuild their lives after having been affected by numerous crises. Millions of Congolese in the east continue to be impacted by food insecurity, forced displacement, malnutrition, epidemics, and loss of livelihoods.
Humanitarian organizations continue to deliver assistance despite the insecurity and challenges to access people in need in several provinces. This year, so far, over 4.9 million people received food aid, over 1.7 million malnourished people, including thousands of children, received nutritional care, and education support was provided to at least 551,000 children. Less than a month before the end of the year, humanitarian organizations have received US$962 million, or 51 per cent of the funding required for the Humanitarian Response Plan. The received funding has enabled to provide aid to 5 million of the 8.8 million people targeted.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
ARMED ATTACKS KILLS SEVEN PEOPLE AND INJURS TWO
On 1 December, seven people were killed and two others injured following an attack by armed elements against a convoy of civilian traders in the bush between Nakendo and Kologoto villages, Mbomou Prefecture, in the southeast. Residents of nearby villages fled seeking refuge in safe locations. This year, so far, transhumance-related incidents have caused the death of seven people and displaced 9,300 others.
NIGER
THOUSANDS OF NIGERIAN REFUGEES IN BOSSO DEPARTMENT
According to authorities in the Diffa region, in the southeast, thousands of Nigerian refugees from Malam Fatori town in neighbouring Nigeria have arrived in the Bosso department [also in Diffa] following violent attacks by non-state armed groups on 19 November. The Niger National Eligibility Commission for refugee status determination (CNE) has pre-registered over 6,000 Nigerian refugees in the area. Since 2015, the Lake Chad region has been plagued by armed attacks resulting in forced displacements. The Diffa region currently hosts about 150,000 internally displaced persons and over 130,000 refugees.
BURKINA FASO
NORTHERN ARBINDA IS CUT OFF FROM THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
Arbinda region in the Soum province, in the north, was cut off from the rest of the country due to violence by armed groups, where clashes have turned violent.
Protestors in Arbinda broke into three warehouses of humanitarian organizations and looted supplies, as well as commercial trucks loaded with food and aid for people in need. There are about 17,000 internally displaced persons due to the conflict in Arbinda according to the National Council for Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation (CONASUR)
Source : ReliefWeb