CAR: Peacekeepers fail to prevent ethnic cleansing of Muslims
Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, February 12th, 2014International peacekeepers have failed to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Central African Republic, a human rights group says.
Militia attacks have led to a “Muslim exodus of historic proportions”, according to a report by Amnesty International.
Aid groups have warned of a food crisis, as many of the shops and wholesalers were run by Muslims.
The UN’s World Food Programme is due to start airlifting aid on Wednesday.
The roads are too dangerous to transport food without a military escort, WFP spokesman Alexis Masciarelli told the BBC.
This is why the UN agency is taking the more expensive option of flying food in from neighbouring Cameroon.
He said 82 tonnes of rice would arrive on Wednesday, with a further 1,800 tonnes of cereal to follow over the next month.
This is enough to feed 150,000 people but he said it was not enough as 1.25 million need food aid in the country.
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