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Children Internally displaced people (IDP's) from the Central African Republic wait to be registered by an NGO in Liton, Central African Republic, 10 February 2021. The Central African Republic has extended the current state of emergency for six months as the fight against a coalition of rebel groups not part of this peace agreement continues. The IDPs have been given food aid by the organisation PAM once, and non-food items by Action Contre la Faim. More international organisations are waiting for possibilities of actions but even though Liton is only 22 kilometers away from Bangui they haven't been able to reach due to security concerns. 2559 people have been displaced in the village of Liton, in the Central African Republic mid-January. They fled when alert was given that more than a hundred armed men from the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) a coalition of armed groups formed on 19 December 2020 prior to the elections. More than 240,000 people have left their homes, to take refuge in neighbouring countries, or inside the Central African Republic since 15 December 2020 according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). (Photo by Adrienne Surprenant/EPA/EFE)
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