CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Information Bulletin No. 176 16 August – 30 August 2011 HIGHLIGHTS • Internal displaced persons (IDPs) in Markounda sub-prefecture • The total Sanitation led by Communities approach • Humanitarian situation on Miamani road in Bamingui-Bangoran prefecture Background and security IDPs in the Markounda sub-prefecture A family of displaced persons in Tira / A.Piatek UNHCR On 28 July, in Satin 2, Batangafo sub-prefecture in North- West CAR, a confrontation between Fulani herders and Humanitarian response to date members of the Armée Populaire pour la Restauration de Doctors Without Borders Holland (MSF-H) has carried la Démocratie (APRD) resulted in the death of three out 83 consultations, including 78 children under-5 years Fulani. The confrontation was the result of requested old, through mobile clinics. No cases of malnutrition have negotiations by a land-owner to the APRD, based in been identified to date. UNHCR, DRC and WFP will Sabo village, for compensation after damages to fields by provide assistance in non-food items and food in the Fulani cattle. Following, on 4 August, a group of coming days. unidentified armed men attacked Sabo village. The population fled to the south towards Tira 1 and Tira 2 Contact Walter Sanchez,
[email protected] for more villages and other surrounding villages in the Markounda information. sub-prefecture where some remain with others in the Humanitarian / Development activities bush. The Deputy Mayor of Sabo and a 5-year old child died in the attack. On 6 August, after hearing of the Social cohesion conducted by DRC in N'délé attack, the population from surrounding villages (Dakaba, Kodogo, Badil and Bobara) fled their villags in fear toward Between 28 July and 8 August, a campaign for social the Tiras.