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municipalities of Central African Republic
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Catholic Herald Online
March 14, 2018
A Catholic bishop in the Central African Republic accused U.N. peacekeeping troops of sexual abuse in his diocese and warned they could be guilty of ... The bishop said he would return to Central African Republic March 18 and spend Holy Week at Zemio, a town 190 miles east of Bangassou currently ...
National Catholic Reporter
March 14, 2018
A Catholic bishop in the Central African Republic accused U.N. peacekeeping troops of sexual abuse in his diocese and warned they could be guilty of ... The bishop said he would return to Central African Republic March 18 and spend Holy Week at Zemio, a town 190 miles east of Bangassou currently ...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
March 8, 2018
The group of women arrived on 3 March at Bossangoa hospital, in western CAR. According to the women, the attack took place on 17 February near Kiriwiri, a village 56 km from Bossangoa. The 10 women said they were with a larger group in the bush, collecting water, washing clothes and tending to their ...
New York Times
February 28, 2018
Six educators were killed this week in the Central African Republic, Unicef said on Wednesday, the latest of several attacks on aid workers as that fragmented and war-torn nation slides deeper into chaos. The attack occurred near Markounda, a small town in the northwest, near the border with Chad — a ...
euronews
February 27, 2018
Access to health care is among the main humanitarian issues in a country like Central African Republic, torn by civil war and political instability. Boda lies in post conflict area, but the challenges for patients to be assisted and for doctors to cope with lack technical devices, medicines and certified personnel, ...
Aljazeera.com
February 23, 2018
The United Nations is appealing to the international community to help with humanitarian efforts in the Central African Republic. The agency says half the population requires urgent assistance. Fighting between various armed groups plunged the country into civil conflict in 2013, and the violence is ...
Aljazeera.com
February 12, 2018
Paoua, Central African Republic - When rebels attacked her village, Delphine Lokaingoto was still too weak from childbirth to lift more than one of her ... Paoua town is now hosting more than 65,000 displaced people since late December in rural Ouham-Pende prefecture near the Chad border, where the ...
africanews
December 31, 1999
Some of the women had open wounds caused by blades,” said Soulemane Amoin, a midwife at the hospital in the town of Bossangoa where the women were treated. “It was terrible to see. It broke my heart.” In its statement, MSF said the women had left their village to fetch water and tend to their fields ...
UN News
December 31, 1999
A burnt village on the road to Bocaranga, northwest Central African Republic (file). ... on Tuesday denounced an attack against education workers that killed six, including one UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) consultant, who were traveling in the north-western prefecture of the Central African Republic (CAR).
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Inter-communal violence continues to increase in several provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since December tensions have been rising between the Hema and Lendu ethnic groups in Ituri province regarding the control of disputed land. At least 45 people were killed on 1 and 2 ...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
... a Catholic Church compound in Bangassou after the town was overrun by members of a Christian armed group last May. They took shelter in the church and risk being killed if they leave the protection of UN peacekeepers. Al Jazeera's Catherine Soi reports from Bangassou, Central African Republic.
Human Rights Watch
February 16, 2018
Human Rights Watch has conducted extensive field research and documented grave human rights violations in the Central African Republic since 2013.[1] This includes research conducted as the conflict worsened in 2013,[2] and in November 2016 and January 2017 concerning the occupation of schools ...
Arab News
February 8, 2018
A man looks on as smoke rises from an attack on a village in Central African Republic (CAR) in this file photo. ... More than 65,000 people have already fled fighting in the area to take refuge in Paoua, a town whose normal population is 40,000, according to the UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
UN News Centre
January 24, 2018
24 January 2018 – With more than half the population in the Central African Republic (CAR) projected to need humanitarian assistance in 2018, the United Nations, the Government and partners are seeking $515.6 million in contributions to address the crisis. “The situation requires greater attention more than ever,” said ...
UN News Centre
January 23, 2018
In total Chad hosts 77,122 refugees from CAR. The conflict in CAR's north-west has also displaced some 65,000 Central Africans to the city of Paoua, which has seen its population tripling. “The newly displaced told UNHCR that armed groups attacked their villages, torching houses, looting food and killing ...
UN News Centre
January 23, 2018
23 January 2018 – Surging violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has put unprecedented numbers of people on the run, the United Nations refugee agency ... UNHCR and the authorities are identifying host villages away from the border in Chad to relocate the refugees, and teams are distributing food and basic ...
ReliefWeb
January 21, 2018
Armed groups killed hundreds of civilians, raped and sexually assaulted women and girls, and burned down villages. ... The Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (l'Union pour la Paix en Centrafrique, UPC), a Seleka faction, carried out some of the worst attacks in and around Alindao, in Basse ...
UN News Centre
January 17, 2018
17 January 2018 – The United Nations Mission in the troubled Central African Republic, known by its French acronym, MINUSCA, has given armed groups in the north of the country 48 hours to clear out. The Mission wants to clear a 50 kilometre perimeter around the town allowing displaced persons to return. Over the last ...
Times LIVE
January 16, 2018
He is one of numerous eyewitnesses AFP interviewed about militia violence that has erupted in northwest Central African Republic, sapping hopes of stabilising a dirt-poor, fragile state. Tombe and thousands of others have sought refuge in the small dusty town of Paoua. Many survivors recount nightmarish ...
Voice of America
January 15, 2018
The U.N. says some 100,000 people in the Central African Republic city of Paoua urgently need humanitarian aid following clashes between armed ... Dujarric said "should armed groups continue clashing and attack other villages, the number of displaced people in Paoua could potentially double or triple.
UNHCR
January 12, 2018
Over 60,000 people from Central African Republic have fled across the Ubangi River since fighting erupted in May. A Central ... Jean-Pierre, his mother, his wife and four children live in the makeshift village of Kpakpo in the DRC, which shelters 800 people who fled riverside villages in the CAR. “One day I ...
ReliefWeb
January 11, 2018
Up to a fifth of the Central African Republic's (CAR) five million population have fled their homes because of fighting or violence, and are today living as displaced persons or refugees. For those who have remained in their villages, life is a struggle to stay safe, to be able to work their land, and to keep ...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
January 8, 2018
Like Josianne, 30,000 people or more in the Paoua region have fled neighbouring villages and sought refuge with family in the town, which is becoming increasingly dangerous. Each local household often hosts more than 40 displaced people, and the provision of sufficient water and food will soon ...
ReliefWeb
January 8, 2018
A total of 1,494 individuals returned to their home villages in Dafag, South Darfur, ending 10 years of asylum in the Central African Republic (CAR). ... expressed their intention to return to Sudan, following improvements in the security situation and the disarmament of armed groups in their home villages.
ReliefWeb
January 8, 2018
Armed clashes have forced more than 25,000 people to seek refuge in Paoua, a town in northern CAR. Fighting erupted on 28 ... north of the town. Around 2,000 houses in several villages have been burned down or destroyed. ... More than 2,000 people have fled to nearby towns for safety. An interagency ...
ReliefWeb
January 8, 2018
Members of Revolution and Justice (RJ) and fighters belonging to the Movement for the Liberation of the Central African Republic People (MNLC) have been ... Like Josianne, 30,000 people or more in the Paoua region have fled neighbouring villages and sought refuge with family in the town, which is ...
AllAfrica.com
January 6, 2018
Did former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba's Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) militia have an organizational policy to attack civilians? And did the nature and scope of the attacks warrant their classification as crimes against humanity? These are among the key issues that will be ...
Rappler
December 31, 2017
BANGUI, Central African Republic – Hundreds of people in north-east Central African Republic have fled their villages following fresh violence between armed groups, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Sunday, December 31. Villagers fled gunfire and machete attacks to arrive in the small town of Paoua, ...
ReliefWeb
December 29, 2017
NGAOUNDERE — Cameroon's military freed 17 of its citizens held hostage by armed groups from the Central African Republic. One person was ... Doctor Yali Bin Yamazani at a Norwegian missionary hospital in the Cameroonian town of Ngaoundere says all of them suffered bullet wounds. He says the ...
VICE News
December 22, 2017
... after the UPC had claimed the village as their new home base. Like many in Alindao, Solange lives in a makeshift camp for the internally displaced, wondering where her family's next meal will come from and doing her best to keep them outside the reach of warring militias that have taken over her town.
Norwegian Refugee Council
December 20, 2017
She has been able to flee with six of her children from their home village Batangafo, in the north of the Central African Republic, and found safety in Gara Amou, about 200 kilometres further south. During the last year fighting has escalated in the north and the east of the country, and spread to new areas.
The Guardian
December 17, 2017
Peacekeeping efforts in Central African Republic, where religious tensions remain continue to run high, have been branded a failure. .... Prudence Lamba*, from Bangui, was one of 100,000 people who lived amid the abandoned, rusty planes in the city's airport, after fleeing the Seleka with her four children ...
Mail & Guardian
December 14, 2017
It is a small town, up towards the northern border of the Central African Republic (CAR), and even in its heyday it was little more than a few tree-lined roads ... people to keep the hospital running and manages a community health worker programme that provides basic health services to surrounding villages.
BBC News
December 9, 2017
The school in his village, 25km (15 miles) from the capital, has no qualified teachers. And so for the past three months, Mr Zaoro, 58, has been leading a class of 105 primary school children. Decades of neglect compounded by four years of war have picked off most of the Central African Republic's ...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
December 6, 2017
The violence continued in the town in August and September of this year, until the ex-Seleka and Anti-Balaka signed a new ceasefire agreement. Since October a new 'self-defence' group has sprung up, founded in a village not far from Batangafo. It is there that fighting is now taking place, beyond the river ...
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
Disclaimer: The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of FAO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or ...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Paoua, Central African Republic - When rebels attacked her village, Delphine Lokaingoto was still too weak from childbirth to lift more than one of her ... Paoua town is now hosting more than 65,000 displaced people since late December in rural Ouham-Pende prefecture near the Chad border, where the ...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
December 31, 1999
Christelle, 24, is still recovering after the surprise attack by armed men outside the hospital in Batangafo, in the north of Central African Republic (CAR), on ... All those who were able to fled the town, crossing the border into neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where they are now refugees.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
December 31, 1999
The newly displaced went to the precarious PK3 refugee camp, on the outskirts of the town. That is also where most anti-Balaka and so-called self-defence militias are based. They attack any fighters and civilians who they consider to be “foreigners”, Muslims, Arabs or Fulani, but some have also forged ...
TIME
November 30, 2017
U.S. Special Forces around their base near the town of Obo, Central African Republic, where they train and deploy against Boko Haram. ... The weary commandos had just spoken to elders near the village of Tongo Tongo after sifting through a deserted campsite, seeking intelligence on an elusive terrorist ...
ReliefWeb
November 30, 2017
Batangafo is a small, nondescript town of about 20 000 people in north-west Central African Republic (CAR). It's only a few hundred kilometres away from the capital Bangui, but the perilous roads and the danger posed by the armed groups that patrol them mean the town is almost entirely cut off from the ...
ReliefWeb
November 30, 2017
Mobaye, a small town on the Ubangi river, is one of Cordaid's outposts in the Central African Republic. ... Contracts were signed with the hospitals and centers, staff was being trained, facilities were being equipped and village communities were involved in monitoring the quality and accessibility of health ...
ReliefWeb
November 29, 2017
Since the beginning of the year, violent clashes between criminalized armed groups and armed civilians — so-called 'auto-defence groups' — and attacks on the civilian population have mounted. Marked by widespread human rights violations, entire neighbourhoods and villages have been burned down ...
KITV Honolulu
October 14, 2017
Central African Republic Fast Facts ... Muslim rebel groups, stages attacks on several cities as they advance towards the capital Bangui.
Reliefweb
October 14, 2017
Violence in northwestern and southeastern Central African Republic ... town on September 7 led nearly all non-governmental organizations ...
Yahoo News
October 13, 2017
A woman and a child walk past U.N. peacekeepers from Gabon patroling the Central African Republic town of Bria on June 12, 2017. (Photo: ...
UNHCR
October 12, 2017
Home is close, but so far away for Central African Republic refugees ... a town just across the river in the Central African Republic (CAR), four months earlier. ... On the Congolese side, some villages have grown to four times their ... Philomene Gerekanda, traditional chief of the village of Lembo Rive in DRC ...
UN News Centre
October 6, 2017
Humanitarian support reaches the town of Bria, the capital of Haute-Kotto prefecture in the Central African Republic. Photo: OCHA CAR ...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
Four patients have died and thousands are stranded without healthcare in an embattled Central African Republic town, after an attack forced the last charity working there to pull out. The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has evacuated its staff and suspended its programmes after its base in ...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
In 2016, the Central African Republic declared a cholera outbreak ... head of Goulia village, one of the villages benefiting from the project.
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