The Trumpet Newspaper Issue 537 (January 27 - February 9 2021)

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JANUARY 27 - FEBRUARY 9 2020
News
Displaced people in Bouar living
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amid fear and growing needs
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following the violent fighting on 9 and
17 January.
Displaced people in Bouar living amid fear and growing needs
of Bouar is quite strategic for the
parties to the conflict. On 9 January,
armed groups gathered together as the
new rebel coalition, Coalition des
Patriotes pour le Changement (CPC),
attacked positions of the Central
African Armed Forces (FACA) and the
United Nations Peacekeeping Mission
(MINUSCA) in the town. The clashes
were intense and took place in
densely-populated areas of Bouar.
Violent fighting broke out again on 17
January.
Since then, more than 8,000 people,
including many families and young
children, have been forced to leave
their homes. Nearly half of them are
currently living in the city’s former
cathedral, the largest of the six
makeshift camps for displaced people,
where Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF) has just started emergency
activities.
MSF providing water and
sanitation, medical care and support
“It is total destitution. The living
conditions in the sites hosting
internally displaced people are
deplorable, particularly due to the lack
of sufficient access to water,” says
Tristan Le Lonquer, MSF Head of
Mission in CAR. “The water network
is no longer functional and the few
wells accessible in the town are not
enough to meet the needs of all the
displaced, so there is a real water
shortage.”
MSF is setting up water points,
building showers and latrines and
installing mobile clinics to provide
basic health care to all displaced
people in need. Since the start of our
activities, in addition to the 20,000
litres of water provided per day, our
teams have carried out 672
consultations in all displaced people’s
sites and referred seven people
requiring further medical care to
hospital. We have distributed basic
necessities kits (non-food items) to
250 families.
MSF is also providing ongoing
support to local medical structures,
particularly in the operating block of
Bouar hospital, where we treated, in
collaboration with the Ministry of
Health, a total of nine war-wounded
Coordinated humanitarian
response needed to meet urgent,
growing needs
The thousands of displaced people,
who fled the fighting and the growing
insecurity as the rebels advance, are
now caught between the need to get
away from danger and the need to
keep an eye on their property and
fields.
Those who have decided to stay are
victims of enforced disappearances,
robbery and extortion by armed men
who now control part of the city. This
violence has not spared the
humanitarian organisations and
infrastructures which have been the
object of numerous lootings and have
therefore had to reduce or suspend
their activities while the needs are
increasing.
The displaced people of Bouar are
facing a growing crisis, and an
effective and coordinated
humanitarian response is urgently
needed.
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