Rapports

BANGUI, 10 February (IRIN) - The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) has approved a US $13-million disarmament, demobilisation and reinsertion (DDR) programme, proposed by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), targeting some 7,565 former combatants. "The proposal is in…

BANGUI, 6 February (IRIN) - The Central African Republic (CAR) government requires seven billion francs CFA (US $13.5 million) to disarm, demobilise and rehabilitate some 7,765 former combatants in a programme scheduled to begin in March, a government minister said…

BANGUI, 6 February (IRIN) - The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) has authorised a six-month extension of an EC-funded emergency medical programme in the northwestern war-affected provinces of Ouham and Ouham Pende, state-owned Radio Centrafrique reported. Health Minister Nestor…

BANGUI, 6 February (IRIN) - Leaders of the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have agreed on the reopening of the common border between the two countries upon the deployment of Congolese troops…

BANGUI, le 4 février (IRIN) - Le ministère de la santé de la République centrafricaine a annoncé une campagne d'immunisation contre la polio dans la province de Ombella Mpoko, dans le sud-ouest du pays, à la suite de la…

BANGUI, 4 February (IRIN) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is due to reopen its office in a Sudanese refugee camp in eastern Central African Republic (CAR), which it closed in December 2002 due to insecurity, an…

BANGUI, 3 February (IRIN) - Following confirmation on 23 January of a polio case in the southwestern province of Ombella Mpoko, Central African Republic (CAR) health officials have scheduled an anti-polio immunisation drive in the province for 23-28 February. "To…

BANGUI, 29 January (IRIN) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) began on Wednesday its distribution of vegetable and other seed crops as well as farming tools to some 3,780 farmers who were affected by the consequences of…

BANGUI, 29 January (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has embarked on a weeklong school feeding awareness campaign in the province on Ouham Pende, northwestern Central African Republic (CAR), where it started in early January distributing food to…

Polio continues to spread in central and west Africa 27 January 2004 | GENEVA - A case of paralytic poliomyelitis due to type 1 poliovirus, with onset of paralysis on 16 December 2003, has been confirmed approximately 200 km north of…