Reports

The Central African Republic hosted nearly 55,000 refugees at the end of 2000, including about 35,000 from Sudan, an estimated 15,000 from Congo-Kinshasa, about 3,000 from Chad, and nearly 1,000 from various other African countries. Refugees from Sudan Large numbers…

NAIROBI, 19 June (IRIN) - The chief of staff of the armed forces of the Central African Republic (CAR), General Francois Bozize, has detailed a number of steps to be taken to reduce continuing violence and to ensure a…

Approximately 465,000 Sudanese were refugees or asylum seekers at the end of 2000: some 200,000 in Uganda, about 70,000 in Ethiopia, an estimated 70,000 in Congo-Kinshasa, at least 55,000 in Kenya, 35,000 in Central African Republic, about 20,000 in…

The Secretary-General's Special Envoy to the Central African Republic is expected to discuss reported human rights abuses with the country's President in Bangui today, according to a United Nations spokesman. Spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva said that the envoy, General…

NAIROBI, 14 June (IRIN) - The UN special envoy to the Central African Republic (CAR) has met President Ange-Felix Patasse in Bangui at the beginning of a mission to try to defuse tensions and restore peace in the capital…

NAIROBI, 12 June (IRIN) - UN humanitarian agencies are mobilising to help tens of thousands of people displaced by the violence of the failed 28 May coup attempt against President Ange-Felix Patasse in the Central African Republic (CAR) capital…

United Nations humanitarian agencies are rallying to help the tens of thousands of people displaced by the violence related to last month's attempted coup d'état in the Central African Republic. A UN spokesman said today in New York that planning…

NAIROBI, 8 June (IRIN) - With Central African Republic (CAR) government forces of President Ange-Felix Patasse back in "full control of the situation" in the capital, as confirmed by the French embassy in Bangui on Thursday, an increasing stream…

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese newspapers once again focused on the situation in the Central African Republic following an abortive but bloody coup Attempt for which former President Andre Kolingba has Claimed responsibility. The Catholic weekly "La Semaine Africaine" writes that…

General Amadou Toumani Touré of Mali, whom the Secretary-General appointed as his Special Envoy to the Central African Republic earlier this week, will arrive in Bangui over the weekend for urgent talks with President Ange-Felix Patassé and others, in…