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Thousands of people continue to flee violence across the Central African Republic

9th March, 2014

As thousands of people continue to flee violence across the central african republic , the united nations world food programme is warning that neighbouring countries are struggling with more than 150,000 new arrivals in urgent need of assistance. More than 70,000 people have fled car to chad since the intensification of violence in december; 28,000 have arrived in recent weeks in cameroon and 12,000 have sought refuge in the republic of the congo.since december 2013, the exodus from car into fragile and food-insecure areas has intensified, creating new strains on local people. Among those uprooted in car are chadian nationals, most of whom have never set foot in their home country or have been gone so long they no longer have any support network. Wfp is concerned it cannot meet the needs of these extremely vulnerable people because of insufficient funding. Many of the surrounding countries are already hosting large numbers of refugees from various countries and resources are stretche
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