Reports

BANGUI, 15 October (IRIN) - The Pasteur Institute in the Central African Republic capital, Bangui, has confirmed an epidemic of diarrhoea in the northwest of the country where at least 40 people died in late September, an official said…

BANGUI, 9 October (IRIN) - The governments of the Central African Republic (CAR) and Rwanda have resolved to revive a tripartite they signed with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for the repatriation of Rwandan…

BANGUI, 7 October (IRIN) - Health authorities resumed on Monday the immunisation of children in the northwestern Central African Republic towns of Bozoum, Paoua, Bocaranga and Ngaoundaye, which had been cut off for a year by war and insecurity,…

Appeal no. 01.44/2003; Appeal target: CHF 1,766,437 (USD 1,212,046 or EUR 1,200,997) Programme Update No. 3 Period covered: July to September 2003 The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of…

BANGUI, 6 October (IRIN) - At least 40 people have died in the last two-weeks from an unidentified diarrhoeal disease in three villages northwest of the capital, Bangui, an aid agency official said on Friday. Massimiliano Pedretti, the representative of the…

BANGUI, 6 October (IRIN) - Some 50,000 firearms are still circulating illegally in the Central African Republic (CAR), constituting a threat to the nation's stability and to general elections scheduled for January 2005, army General Xavier Yangongo told IRIN on…

BANGUI, 6 October (IRIN) - Central African Republic's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, meeting at the ongoing national reconciliation conference, has suggested that the head of state, Francois Bozize, enlarge his transitional government to allow for broader consensus in his administration. This…

BANGUI, 6 October (IRIN) - Flood victims in the town of Sibut, some 185 km northeast of the Central African Republic capital of Bangui, have now received food and other relief material, aid officials told IRIN on Friday. "We distributed…

BANGUI, 2 October (IRIN) - Central African Republic's battered education sector received a boost on Wednesday as the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and France announced aid in money and supplies to the nation. UNICEF's education programme officer in the CAR, Sophie…

MOLANGUE, 1 October (IRIN) - Refugees farmers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo living in Camp Molangue, about 120 km south of the Central African Republic (CAR) capital, Bangui, have asked the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)…