<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>As you may know, since the Seleka rebellion took down Central African Republic between December 2012 and March 2013, the country has slowly, but deeply became a chaos encompassing murders, abuses, and increasing violence, largely from reprisal attacks on civilians from Seleka's mainly Muslim fighters and Christian militias called "anti-balaka" with a risk of spiraling into genocide.</div>
<div>On December 4, UN Security Council had allowed both UN Peacekeepers and French soldiers deployed in the country to pacify it and disarm the fighting groups. France sent more soldiers in the country in the following days. Unfortunately, it will likely take a lot of time for the country to recover.</div>
<div><br></div><div>HOT has activated the OSM community since April 10, 2013 (see the post <a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2013-04-10_hot_activation_in_central_african_republic" target="_blank">here</a>). A lot of the main towns have been mapped the road network has been largely consolidated, especially in the Western half of the country. An import of humanitarian data (health, education, water and sanitation) from UNICEF is also ongoing. Even if some OSM mappers have contributed a lot, the mobilization so far is not as high as this dramatic situation would require. I hope that the massive remote response for the Philippines and the outcomes it provided to the humanitarian responders in the field will make this quite forgotten cause more supported.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic" target="_blank">OSM wikipage for CAR</a> has been updated, describing the past and ongoing work with an Activation section. <a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/" target="_blank">New Tasking Manager Jobs</a> have been recently created. If we get high resolution imagery where it currently lacks (especially in the Southern Eastern part of the country, also affected by the LRA), new ones will be added for these regions. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Please contribute by mapping CAR!</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Severin</div><div>HOT</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>