GENEVA (Reuters) - Insecurity in Central African Republic threatens a severe food crisis this year, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Friday, citing a doubling of prices for staples such as corn after a month-long insurgency.
Some 800,000 people live in the central third of CAR, an area still held by the Seleka rebel coalition.
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