Rapports

BRAZZAVILLE, 5 May (IRIN) - Central African Republic refugees living in the Republic of Congo have asked to be repatriated. In a statement made available to IRIN on Thursday in the Congolese capital, Brazzaville, the 257 refugees recalled how they arrived…

BANGUI, 5 May (IRIN) - Schools reopened in the Central African Republic on Monday after a six-month strike by teachers demanding immediate partial payment of their 32 months in salary arrears, a union official told IRIN. An agreement to resume…

BANGUI, 2 May (IRIN) - The UN system in the Central African Republic (CAR) appealed to donors on Wednesday for US $9.1 million to help two-thirds of the country's 3.7 million people directly affected by war. The money will be…

BANGUI, 30 April (IRIN) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has donated drugs and medical equipment worth US $550,000 to be distributed among 890,000 people in six provinces in eastern Central African Republic (CAR). The UNICEF monitoring-evaluation project officer, Robert Ndamobissi,…

JOHANNESBURG: Representatives of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) attending the First Plenary Meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) welcomed international commitment to take additional effective steps to break the link between diamonds and human rights violations and conflict in Africa.…

The Federal Foreign Office is making 200,000 euro available to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for the protection and care of refugees from the Central African Republic in Chad. Since December 2002, approximately 38,000 refugees…

BRAZZAVILLE, 29 April (IRIN) - Some 100 soldiers from the Republic of Congo (ROC) left the capital, Brazzaville, on Monday in support of an international peacekeeping force of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States (known by…

BANGUI, 29 April (IRIN) - French Red Cross Chairman Marc Gentilini promised on Monday to ask French President Jacques Chirac and the leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations to provide economic aid to the Central African Republic. "I…

BANGUI, 28 April (IRIN) - The international NGO Medicos Sin Fronteras (MSF-Spain) immunised on Wednesday and Thursday a total of 7,560 children in Sibut, 185 km northeast of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). "We organised the…

BANGUI, 23 April (IRIN) - The Central African Republic (CAR) has begun a diplomatic offensive across the region to explain the new administration's policies, Prime Minister Abel Goumba told IRIN on Tuesday. He said the minister for foreign affairs, Abdoul Karim…