UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Central African Republic is facing a humanitarian crisis with 2.4 million people in need of assistance and the U.N.’s $534 million appeal only 36% funded, a U.N. official said Wednesday.
Mineral-rich but impoverished CAR has a population of 6 million.
CAR's President Faustin Archange Touadera has developed close ties to Russia and its Wagner mercenary group whose forces have served as his personal bodyguards.
He said there are armed groups and security issues around CAR’s borders with Sudan, Chad and South Sudan and minefields and explosives in the west.
The U.N. announced Tuesday it was giving CAR $6.5 million from its emergency relief fund.
Persons:
Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Ayoya, it’s, aren’t, Francois Bozize, Faustin Archange, Wagner, Touadera, Yevgeny Prigozhin, ” Ayoya, ”
Organizations:
UNITED NATIONS, —, United Nations, Republican Front, Central African, Russia
Locations:
African Republic, Chad, Sudan, Russia, Bangui, Central African Republic, CAR’s, South Sudan