Reports

BANGUI, 27 August (IRIN) - The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has started the repatriation of about 1,700 Central African Republic refugees from the northern Republic of Congo town of Betou, where they have been…

BANGUI, 27 August (IRIN) - Central African Republic leader Francois Bozize has appointed a new 11-member team to coordinate a national conference, due to begin in September, aimed at reconciling the nation after months of war. Citing a presidential decree…

NAIROBI, 25 August (IRIN) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has appealed for US $2.6 million to distribute farming, livestock and fishing inputs to vulnerable populations in the Central African Republic before the start of the next…

BANGUI, 22 August (IRIN) - The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) has closed its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), halting transportation of goods and people across the River Oubangui, state-owned Radio Centrafrique reported…

CCA Guidance for North East Africa Rainfall in Sep-Nov 2003 at One Month Lead North East Africa is defined here as the region between 20°N and 5°N; 20-45°E. The prediction for Sep-Nov 2003 North East Africa rainfall…

BANGUI, 21 August (IRIN) - Food distribution among primary school children in war-affected areas in the north of the Central African Republic is due to begin next week following a government authorisation to the UN World Food Programme (WFP),…

BANGUI, 20 August (IRIN) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has started distributing maize seeds to farmers in southern Central African Republic (CAR) and around the capital, Bangui, a FAO official told IRIN on Wednesday. FAO Programme Officer…

BANGUI, 20 August (IRIN) - Cases of diarrhoea in the northern Central African Republic (CAR) town of Bocaranga have decreased by 70 percent after over one month of treatment, Joan Ignasi Soler, a representative of Medicos Sin Fronteras (MSF-Spain)…

BANGUI, 13 August (IRIN) - French NGO Volonté d'Aide aux Démunis donated on Tuesday drugs worth 1.5 million francs CFA (US $2,696) to the Central African Republic Ministry of Health, state-owned Television Centrafricaine reported. The drugs will be supplied to…

BANGUI, 12 August (IRIN) - Police in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), have arrested the chairman of the CAR Red Cross Society's dissolved executive board, Francois Farra-Frond, for his alleged involvement in the misappropriation of donor funds,…