SILVER SPRING, MD. \u2013 The recent post-election violence in the West African nation of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, which has left more than 250 dead and forced thousands to flee their homes to escape the political crisis and inter-ethnic clashes, has prompted the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) to begin delivering food aid to hundreds of displaced families.<\/p>\n
Working in coordination with local partners, ADRA will distribute food rations to newly displaced persons in the western town of Du\u00e9kou\u00e9, an area where fighting erupted recently after the shooting death of a local businesswoman. This incident triggered fatal inter-ethnic clashes that resulted in the deaths of 34 people, the looting and burning of more than 400 houses and shops, and the significant increase of displaced persons.<\/p>\n
ADRA\u2019s operation will target 250 families directly affected by the recent crisis. Each household will receive a 14-day food ration for five people that contains a combination of rice, beans, vegetable oil, and corn soymilk. ADRA has assembled the rations taking the basic nutritional requirements into account, ensuring each beneficiary will receive the required caloric intake. Priority is being given to pregnant and lactating women, chronically ill residents, the elderly, and disabled persons. According to local sources, more than two-thirds of the 9,500 people currently displaced in that area are women, children and elderly people.<\/p>\n
In late November 2010, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire began experiencing an escalation of political unrest following a highly disputed presidential election in which the two main candidates claimed victory. As a result, there has been an increase in attacks of political supporters and a rise in human rights violations.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les r\u00e9centes violences post-\u00e9lectorales en C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest, qui ont fait plus de 250 morts et contraint des milliers de personnes \u00e0 fuir leur domicile pour \u00e9chapper \u00e0 la crise politique et aux affrontements interethniques, ont incit\u00e9 l'Agence adventiste de d\u00e9veloppement et de secours (ADRA) \u00e0 commencer \u00e0 fournir une aide alimentaire \u00e0 des centaines de familles d\u00e9plac\u00e9es.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[785,808,609,558,11],"tags":[6,1173,1085],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-cote-divoire","category-food-assistance","category-nutrition","category-press-release","tag-disaster-relief","tag-food-distribution","tag-internally-displaced-persons-idps"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46002,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/46002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}