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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency food assistance to 8,000 people affected by an upsurge in violence in the north of the Central African Republic (CAR), UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Wednesday.
This is in addition to regular food and nutrition support for some 120,000 people, Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here. "Over the next three months, WFP plans to assist an additional 17,000 people with food or food vouchers."
In 2016, WFP and its partners plan to assist 1.4 million people in the areas of the Central African Republic worst hit by conflict and hunger, he said.
But with only 44 percent of funding needs met, they urgently require 42 million U.S. dollars to keep doing so, he added.
A civil war in the Central African Republic broke out on Dec. 10, 2012 between Seleka rebel coalition and government forces.
Seleka took power from former President Francois Bozize in March 2013 and the rebel's leader Michel Djotodia declared himself as president.
A National Transitional council was established and elected Catherine Samba-Panza as provisional president until the second round of the new election on Feb. 14, 2016, in which Faustin Archange Touadera was elected as the president.
