Humanitarian flights to the Central African Republic have been reduced to one every two weeks due to fuel shortages and a spike in food prices
In one of the world’s poorest countries, the hungry are going hungrier this month. Relief agencies have drastically reduced their emergency aid in the Central African Republic because of fuel shortages that have grounded airplanes and halted truck convoys.
And while an agreement might ease some of the pressure on food prices, it is not expected to resolve the inflation problem for many of the world’s most impoverished people. Fuel prices, for example, would be untouched by a Black Sea agreement. More than 60 per cent of the country’s five million people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, yet the fuel shortage is forcing a cut to humanitarian programs such as water and sanitation, according to the NRC.
“For organizations like the Canadian Foodgrains Bank that provide emergency food, it now costs more to provide food, even though more people are going hungry,” said the organization’s CEO, Andy Harrington.
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