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HUMANITARIAN AID UNDER SCRUTINY

By Aline M'PANGBA-YAMARA | LNC Director of LAMINE MÉDIA Editor-in-Chief of LNC

(Bangui, August 21, 2026 | LNC) The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is being forced to scale back operations. Undermined by a lack of sufficient funding and overshadowed by other international emergencies, the system is weakening. In the Central African Republic, the UN agency has had to close its own regional offices. More broadly, 116 humanitarian bases across the country have shut down. Due to a lack of resources, this withdrawal leaves entire regions—often highly isolated ones—abandoned. Consequently, nearly half the population finds itself without a safety net. Compounding this drying up of aid is the extreme danger of the operating environment. Humanitarian workers in the country take immense daily risks to reach the population, navigating between violence from armed groups and chronic insecurity. Yet, who still cares about this small, landlocked nation? At a time when global attention and budgets are monopolized by crises in Ukraine, Sudan, and Gaza, the Central African Republic is slipping into the diplomatic blind spot. The country’s lack of visibility, coupled with a profound crisis of poor governance, plays a significant role: it discourages increasingly selective donors. Left to its grim fate, an entire people is dying in silence, amidst general indifference.

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Date: August 21, 2026

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