Informes

BANGUI, 20 April (IRIN) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP), through its Small Arms and Demobilisation Unit, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, will assist the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate former combatants,…

BANGUI, 16 April (IRIN) - The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) has announced that it will equip health institutions in three towns in the southwestern province of Mambere Kadei with HIV/AIDS research centres and other facilities, state-owned Radio…

BANGUI, 14 April (IRIN) - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the Central African Republic (CAR) Ministry of Health have conducted immunisation drives against meningitis and measles in several parts of the country, officials told IRIN on Wednesday. MSF coordinator Carlos…

14 APRIL 2004, GENEVA - A case of paralytic poliomyelitis due to an imported type 1 poliovirus has been reported in Botswana, a country which had been polio-free since 1991. The virus has been closely linked…

As of 31 March 2004, WHO has received reports of 43 cases and 7 deaths in the Central African Republic. Two districts, Nana Boguila (39 cases, 5 deaths) and Zere (4 cases, 2 deaths) have attack rates above the…

BANGUI, 6 April (IRIN) - A local NGO in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Solidarité Protestante en Centrafrique, has started a week-long distribution of fishing equipment to some 80 fishermen in two sectors of the capital, Bangui, Réné…

NAIROBI, 2 April (IRIN) - //This is the sixth of a series of reports on prospects for peace in the Sudan. The reports are being published over two months// With a landmass of over 2 million sq km, Sudan is…

BANGUI, 1 April (IRIN) - The Central African Republic's law advisory body, the National Transitional Council, voted 64-2 on a bill on Wednesday setting up an electoral commission to oversee presidential and parliamentary polls due to be held early…

NAIROBI, 1 April (IRIN) - Medecins Sans Frontieres reported on Wednesday that by mid-March 40,000 people had been vaccinated against meningitis in the western district of Batangafo, in the Central African Republic. The ongoing vaccination drive was launched on 8 March…

BANGUI, 1 April (IRIN) - A weeklong polio immunisation campaign began on Thursday in the southwestern province of Lobaye in the Central African Republic (CAR), state-owned Radio Centrafrique reported. The campaign focuses on the Mbaiki, Boda and Mongoumba areas, 107 km,…