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The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
UGANDAN special forces have killed a senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Central African Republic, the army spokesman said yesterday.
In The Faith (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
CAR (MNN) -- Bloody tribal clashes are flaring in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo. Twenty-five thousand people have fled the violence into the Central African Republic. A local church is responding to the needs of as many as they can. Many of the refugees are members of Africa Inland Mission's partner church in Congo. An AIM missionary is heading up relief efforts for 2300 refugees. AIM is...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Ugandan army yesterday said it had killed yet another commander of the Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic even as US lawmakers moved closer to passing a law to enable the White House directly get involved in anti-LRA efforts.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
THE UN Security Council has condemned the increasing attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and the Sudan.
Congo Watch (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Source: Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) Date: 18 Nov 2009 (via ReliefWeb ) DR Congo: Calls for LRA to face Congo charges Campaigners want ICC to indict Ugandan rebels for crimes they are alleged to have committed in DRC. By Melanie Gouby in the Hague and Gabriel Shabani in Kinshasa (AR No 236, 18-Nov-09) Human rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the continued and recently increasing attacks carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and the Sudan, which have resulted in the death, abduction and displacement of thousands of civilians.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The UN Security Council on Tuesday strongly condemned the increasingly recent attacks by the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and Sudan, which continue to brutalize civilians, and called on the armed rebel group to surrender. In a statement read out by Tomas Mayr-Harting of Austria, who holds the rotating Council presidency for November,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Security Council today called on United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR) and Sudan to coordinate strategies to protect civilians from the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed, kidnapped and displaced thousands of people.
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This Special Research Report analyses the third year of operations of the UN’s Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), and is a follow-up to Security Council Report’s Special Research Reports of 17 October 2008 and 5 October 2007, analysing the second and first years of the work of the PBC, respectively, and the Special Research Report of 23 June 2006 which reported on the lead-up to and establishment...
PSD Blog - World Bank Group (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
IFC announced yesterday that it will issue a $43m local currency bond in Central Africa, a first for the World Bank institution, and also a first for a non-local financial institution. This is IFC's second local currency bond in Sub-Saharan Africa, following its issuance of a West African Kola Bond in late 2006: The 20 billion Central African francs ($43 million equivalent), five-year tenor bond will...
Uganda Watch (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Commentary by Peter Eichstaedt from his blog post - The good, the bad, the ugly - Saturday, November 14, 2009. Excerpts: This past week, Norah Anek, the 86-year-old mother of Joseph Kony, the leader of the militia-cult Lord's Resistance Army, passed away. She was buried not far from where she gave birth to Kony in the town of Adek, about an hour's drive southeast of Gulu in northern Uganda. According...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A broken fridge in Belfast is an inconvenience, in a Bush hospital on the border of the Central African Republic's with Chad it can mean ruined medicines and tragedy for patients.
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Since 1992, the United Nations (UN) has modified its perspective on peacebuilding in post-conflict countries, moving beyond the “traditional” peacekeeping operations to include peacebuilding. This perspective, articulated in the UN Agenda for Peace, has guided most mandates of various UN missions in Africa and its peacekeeping since the end of the Cold War. This article examines the UN’s...
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