WFP/UNHCR Appeal to End Suffering of People Fleeing C.A.R. into Cameroon (For the Media)

The heads of two frontline United Nations agencies today urged donors to support a swift response to end the suffering of thousands of malnourished as well as sick women and children fleeing violence in Central African Republic (C.A.R.).

Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Ertharin Cousin and UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres stressed the dire plight of the most vulnerable arriving in Cameroon from C.A.R. exhausted, often acutely malnourished and sick.