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The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) is to provide three months' worth of food to 9,166 households of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR).
WFP officer Willy Mpoyiwampoyi told IRIN on Thursday that up to 55,000 people will receive maize meal, pulses, vegetable oil, iodized salt and corn soya blend in an operation scheduled to start by the end of this month.
The food will be shared among the IDPs as well as some Congolese refugees and their host communities. "It is anticipated that the distributed food would be shared among displaced people and their hosts, thus enabling the IDPs to pay their debt," Mpoyiwampoyi said.
The displaced people have been relying on the host families for food. "As long as they cannot pay, they are in one way or another tied to their hosts, meaning they will remain displaced," he added. The operation will cost a total of US $1,385,301.
WFP is the lead agency in this operation. The UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) have already distributed other forms of aid to these IDPs.
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