GENEVA - The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, is appealing for $164 million to assistance and protect nearly 1.5 million Central Africans uprooted by conflict and violence. Civil conflict in the Central African Republic has uprooted about one-third of the country’s population of 4.7 million, most now refugees in neighboring countries. has added to the nearly 1.3 million refugees in the region. UNHCR spokesman Boris Cheshirkov says most of the refugees have gone to the Democratic Republic of Congo. “New arrivals are reporting grave human rights abuses inside CAR.

Source: Ethiopian News February 27, 2021 18:00 UTC