WFP D. R. Congo External Situation Report #21 - 29 January 2021
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Highlights
The new Country Strategy Plan 2021-2024, with a focus on resilience building, started on 1 January 2021.
WFP continues its scaled-up response, prioritizing assistance to IDPs and meeting urgent nutritional needs.
To provide assistance at scale, WFP requires a total of USD 662.5 million for 2021.
Situation Update
• According to the latest Humanitarian Response Plan, 19.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in the DRC, 4 million more than in the previous year. Moreover, 4.4 million people are affected by global acute malnutrition, including 3.4 million malnourished children under the age of five.
West and Central Africa: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (27 jan – 04 feb 2021)
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MONKEYPOX DISEASE RETURNS AFTER BEING DECLARED OVER
Two confirmed and six suspected cases of monkeypox were detected in the KembéSatema health district, after the epidemic was declared over on 27 December 2020. WHO airlifted two tons of Interagency Emergency Health Kits to respond to needs in the health district, including medications against pneumonia and malaria. Humanitarian partners are dispatching health kits to the district hospital of Kembé town and deploying doctors to provide treatments. Monkeypox is a rare infection that occurs sporadically in forested areas of Central and West Africa.
200,000 displaced in CAR in less than two months January 30, 2021
A refugee mother from Central African Republic sits with her children beside a makeshift shelter in Ndu village, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. courtesy UNHCR/Fabien Faivre
GENEVA Violence and insecurity related to the recent elections in the Central African Republic (CAR) has forced more than 200,000 people to flee their homes in less than two months, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday, warning tens of thousands are facing dire living conditions.
More than half are displaced within the country, but 92,000 people have crossed into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while more than 13,200 are now in Cameroon, Chad and the Republic of the Congo.