Reports

BANGUI, 23 October (IRIN) - Spanish medical charity Medicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) begun on Thursday a three-day measles immunisation campaign, targeting 11,000 children in the town of Bozoum in northwestern Central African Republic, an official told IRIN. The immunisation drive…

BANGUI, 21 October (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) began a food distribution on Tuesday to 2,530 former refugees who returned to the Central African Republic (CAR) in June from northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, an…

BANGUI, 20 October (IRIN) - The state electricity utility in the Central African Republic, Enerca, has restored power to the northern town of Kaga Bandoro, 342 km north of the capital, Bangui, state-owned Radio Centrafrique reported. Repairs on the town's…

BANGUI, 20 October (IRIN) - Some 1,200 fishermen and fish farmers in the Central African Republic have begun receiving fishing material from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), an official told IRIN on Friday. Nicolas Bokossi, the technical coordinator of…

BANGUI, 17 October (IRIN) - Central African Republic (CAR) leader Francois Bozize has directed the ministers in charge of agriculture and livestock, Pierre Gbianza and Denis Kossibela, to provide farmers in war-affected areas with tools to enable them to…

BANGUI, 17 October (IRIN) - The national reconciliation talks in the Central African Republic (CAR) ended on Thursday in the capital, Bangui, with the completion of the final report and the setting up of a team to oversee implementation…

BANGUI, 16 October (IRIN) - Shop owners in the northeastern town of Bria reopened for business on Wednesday after a three-day shutdown in protest against police extortion, state-owned Radio Centrafrique reported on Wednesday. The radio reported that stores shut on Sunday…

BANGUI, 16 October (IRIN) - Officials of the Central African Republic and the French Development Agency have started talks on the implementation of a €3.5-million road repair and water drainage project for the capital, Bangui, state-owned Radio Centrafrique reported on…

BANGUI, 16 October (IRIN) - The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) has received 10 vaccine storage freezers for distribution to health facilities in the war-ravaged north of the Central African Republic (CAR), an official said on Wednesday. Bruno Legeard,…

BANGUI, le 15 octobre (IRIN) - L'Institut Pasteur de Bangui, la capitale de la République Centrafricaine, a confirmé mercredi à l'IRIN, une épidémie de diarrhée dans le nord-ouest du pays. Au moins 40 personnes sont décédées à la fin…