Rapports

BANGUI, 7 October (IRIN) - Although the Central African Republic (CAR) has experienced relative calm one and a half years since a coup d'etat on 15 March 2003, the country is yet to fully recover from more than a…

DAKAR, GENEVA, NEW YORK, 2 October 2004 More than 80 million children will be immunized against polio in 23 countries across sub-Saharan Africa (22 countries in West & Central Africa, plus Sudan), as part of the single-largest, public health…

Benin 1-year old children immunized for Polio3 (2002): 72% Vitamin A supplementation coverage rate, 6-59 months (2001): 95% Burkina-Faso 1-year old children immunized for Polio3 (2002): 42% Vitamin A supplementation coverage rate, 6-59 months (2001): 97% Cameroon 1-year…

Polio anywhere is a threat to children everywhere Global Polio Eradication Initiative: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is the largest public health effort of all time. Launched in 1988 and spearheaded by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, U.S. Centers for Disease…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] BANGUI, 22 September (IRIN) - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the Central African Republic (CAR) have embarked on a two-year project to provide low cost malaria treatment in the…

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's initiative to bring lasting peace, stability and development to the countries of central Africa, several of which have been torn by decades of war, takes a major step forward next week with the first…

[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] BANGUI, 3 Sep 2004 (IRIN) - Central African Republic (CAR) leader Francois Bozize dismissed his cabinet on Wednesday naming a new team of ministers the following day.…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Rupert Colville - to whom quoted text may be attributed at the press briefing, on 31 August 2004, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR has reached an…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] BANGUI, 30 August (IRIN) - A new and democratically elected government will be installed by March 2005, according to the chairman of the country's electoral commission. The parliamentary…

The United Nations Peace-Building Office in the Central African Republic (BONUCA) has launched a nationwide "awareness campaign" to prepare for elections in January that it is hoped will end years of instability and violence in the country. As part of…