Earlier this month, Refugees International released a report calling for increased humanitarian aid to coincide with a string of recent political reforms by the country's first nominally civilian government in decades.

At the same time, Bill Davies of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) described a recent UN inter-agency mission to the KIA-controlled town border town of Laiza in December - which delivered essential household items to the displaced and conducted an initial assessment of the situation – as a positive step, but stressed the need for stronger assistance and access. 

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