Costa do Marfim: Consequências do conflito

Children are still suffering the consequences of the power struggle that brought Ivory Coast to the brink of conflict.
In parts of the West African nation, some children are living on one plate of rice a day, others are sleeping in overcrowded areas or haven't been to school in months.
Save the Children's assessment teams have found that in some rural areas of the main city of Abidjan, children and their families only have enough food for one meal a day. Shelter and sanitation conditions in overcrowded camps in the west are still precarious, and tens of thousands of people are at high risk of communicable diseases as the rainy season starts.
Alongside the risk of hunger and disease, tens of thousands of children continue to miss out on their education. Although there has been progress in getting schools to reopen in the centre, north and west of the country, 83,000 children in these areas are still out of school. Some have not seen the inside of a classroom since October.
Children have also been exposed to high levels of violence, with reports of killing and maiming of children as well as sexual violence against children now confirmed by the UN.
Despite the acute needs of these children and their families in both Ivory Coast and refugee camps in Liberia, international attention has moved on to crises in other countries, while the focus on Ivory Coast - if any - is on the resolution of the political crisis.
"The international perception is that because levels of violence have died down and the country has a president, the crisis is now resolved." said Save the Children's Annie Bodmer-Roy from Man in the west of the country.
"This is not the case. Our teams are on the ground, speaking to children and their families and witnessing the horrible conditions that these people are still living in - we know that the humanitarian crisis is far from over. The need is enormous and funding scarce. Children are being forgotten."
Save the Children, organização britânica