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Central African Republic - LRA-Related Displacement Fact Sheet #1, Fiscal Year (FY) 2011

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CAR
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USAID
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS

  • Between January 1 and March 7, nine Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks resulted in at least 15 deaths and 24 abductions, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). In addition, the LRA killed at least six people and abducted approximately 30 others during a March 13 attack in Nzako town in Mbomou Prefecture, according to international media sources. LRA attacks have displaced more than 2,000 people in the Central African Republic (CAR), bringing the total number of LRA-affected internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country to nearly 18,700 individuals.