UN Needs More Funding for CAR Refugees

The UN refugee agency said it needs three times as much money as it's already received to provide basic aid to the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Central African Republic (C.A.R.). In an effort to revive international support, UNHCR held a donors’ meeting Tuesday in Geneva. The agency said that so far, it has received about one-third of what it needs this year to carry out its humanitarian operations in Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the...

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