The chief representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the diamond-rich dirt poor nation calls on all actors, including the  government, to live up to the expectations of the people.

ICRC delegation head Valerie Petitpierre tells a seminar in Pretoria the CAR poses the third worst humanitarian crisis on the planet behind Yemen and Syria.

“Two point nine million people depend on humanitarian assistance.One our of four people are displaced. Forty percent of the population is food insecure,” she says, adding that less than half the people have access to drinking water and more than three-quarters live in poverty.

There is hope after the February peace deal but government and other role players must see that the end of conflict also means an end to violence against civilians.

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