Central African Republic News

“They stressed that the full deployment of MINURCAT and EUFOR Chad/CAR will contribute to the protection of vulnerable civilian populations and to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance, pursuant to resolution 1778 (2007)”

Condemning continued armed activity of rebel groups in eastern Chad, members of the Security Council today expressed their concern over the humanitarian situation in that region and the neighbouring ... via Scoop

“Preventing sexual and gender-based violence also remains a key challenge”

The United Nations refugee agency today issued an appeal for $40.3 million to provide protection and assistance to refugees and internally displaced people in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region in 2008. via Scoop

“Don't commit a felony and they are infinitesimally small”

Compared to the lax security controls of America's visa system, the U.S. border with Mexico looks like an impenetrable fortress. via PittsburghLIVE.com

“UNHCR's main goal remains to assist the Sudanese government in fulfilling its responsibility to deliver an effective and coordinated humanitarian response to the needs of conflict-affected populations throughout Darfur”

The United Nations refugee agency on Friday launched a fresh appeal for $40,3-million to help more than 2,5-million displaced people in the Sudanese region of Darfur. via Mail & Guardian

One does not have to be a theist to recall and appreciate the words of the great Greek dramatist Euripides, who wrote 2400 years ago: "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first drives mad". We ourselves think ... via Lanka Page

“What we want is security...let our cursed sisters who were raped, brutalised, traumatised and bereaved have peace of mind and the hope of being women, mothers, and grandmothers”

The Monam group of rape survivors in the northern town of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic does what it can to keep going, but morale is low and money tight. via AllAfrica.com

“We cannot confirm it is official LRA - it could be a dissident branch”

The Lord's Resistance Army has denied being behind the abductions and rape committed in Central African Republic committed last month. via AllAfrica.com

“In as much as we can confirm that the attacks actually took place, we were unable to identify who the perpetrators were, partly because of the fact that several armed groups with similar modus operandi are present in the region”

Rebel fighters attacked villages in the Central African Republic, raping women and taking 150 hostages, including 55 children, United Nations officials here and in Bangui said on Friday. via News24.com

“We were unable to identify who the perpetrators were, partly because several armed groups with similar modus operandi are present in the area”

Gunmen are holding 55 children captured in raids on villages in Central African Republic, the United Nations said on Friday, weeks after attacks that local authorities blamed on Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army. via Reuters

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“The LRA should have all assembled in the designated place at Ri-Kwangba and obeyed the cessation of hostilities agreement”

Former commanders say the Ugandan rebel leader has moved to avoid capture, arrest and trial. via Institute for War and Peace Reporting

“We will work with you to tackle the issue of insecurity in Chad”

The United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad has signed a status of mission agreement with Chadian authorities that will establish the legal principles under which the operation will run ... via AllAfrica.com

Almost three-quarters of the population of a northern prefecture in the Central African Republic have been vaccinated against a deadly outbreak of meningococcal meningitis that struck the impoverished nation ... via United Nations

“Tens of thousands of homes have been burned to the ground ...in different parts of northern CAR, with some villages being completely destroyed during reprisals by armed forces”

After hiding in the bush for more than a year, families in the northern Central African Republic regions of Ouaham and Nana Grebizi are starting to return to their roadside villages. via AllAfrica.com

“These deadly incursions by the Chadian army further destabilize an already precarious region.”

The Chadian army has launched numerous cross-border raids on villages in northwestern Central African Republic in recent weeks, killing civilians, burning villages, and stealing cattle, Human Rights Watch said ... via Human Rights Watch

“Let's wait for the D-day when we are expected to sign the peace agreement and see whether they will come to sign”

Joseph Kony is wanted on war crimes charges by the ICC Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony has moved to the Central African Republic from his Democratic Republic of Congo base. via BBC News

“The immunity is just for two years. So for that reason, the vaccine is just for reactive vaccinations, to control the outbreak, but it is not to immunize people for a long time”

With more than three months remaining in the peak meningitis season, outbreaks in Burkina Faso and Central African Republic have already taken hundreds of lives. via Voice of America

“We are shocked and outraged that our patient's mother was shot”

A woman was shot dead in a Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres ambulance, Monday, March 10, when an unidentified gunman fired on the vehicle in Vakaga Province in the northeast of the Central ... via MediLexicon

“Given the role that weak states can play as incubators and breeding grounds for transnational security threats, building state capacity ... should be a higher priority for U.S. policy”

Using those indicators, Somalia, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo headed the list and were designated as "failed states." They were followed by Iraq, Burundi, Sudan, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, ... via PanArmenian Network

Support House and Senate resolutions to secure the Darfur conflict region The human rights situation in Chad and the Central African Republic has grown significantly worse since a rebel attack on Chad's ... via Amnesty International USA