All Africa (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is voicing concern that security in the strife-torn north of the Central African Republic (CAR) has started to worsen, with fresh fighting between Government forces and rebels uprooting thousands more civilians in the deeply impoverished country.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The residents of this town near the Sudanese border are on edge, fearful that rebel fighters will repeat a recent assault that caused three-quarters of the population to flee in panic.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Geneva - Hundreds of children remain soldiers in the service of rebel groups in the Central African Republic, and recent insecurity in the unstable country might harm efforts to ensure their release, UN children's charity UNICEF said Wednesday. So fa...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Geneva - Hundreds of children remain soldiers in the service of rebel groups in the Central African Republic, and recent insecurity in the unstable country might harm efforts to ensure their release, UN children's charity UNICEF said Wednesday. So fa...
Nasa (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Widespread agricultural fires sprang up across central Africa in late November 2008. This image includes parts of Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Sudan.
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The European Commission has allocated €6 million in humanitarian aid to help around 200,000 displaced people and other vulnerable civilians in the north of the Central African Republic (CAR). Despite some recent political progress, the situation in the north of the country has not allowed for a significant improvement of the humanitarian situation over the past year. In addition to the nearly...
Market Wire - Management Changes (Free subscription) | yesterday
... strong focus on central and west Africa. AXMIN's goal is to move its Passendro Gold Project in the Central African Republic towards production. AXMIN is positioned to grow in value as it develops its project pipeline in parallel pursuing new opportunities to increase its asset base. For more information regarding AXMIN visit our website at .This press release includes certain "Forward-Looking...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Mahamat Oumar Ismael is one of 3,000 Sudanese refugees who fled the conflict in Darfur and have lived since 2007 in camps near Sam Ouandja, in the northwest Central African Republic. Security, he told IRIN, is the absolute priority for his family and the other refugees in the camp.
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Displaced children in the Central African Republic need better protection and assistance as insecurity continuesGENEVA, 26 November 2008 - " Internally displaced children in the Central African Republic (CAR) face severe protection problems from ongoing insecurity and violence, according to a report released today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian...
Slog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Charles,It is clear that some countries in Africa are spinning deeper and deeper into hell (Zimbabwe, Somalia, Central African Republic & Democratic Republic of Congo). Is it unfair or even morally wrong to pose this question. I believe you've heard it in some capacity before "Would Zimbabwe, Somalia, CAR and DRC be better off if they were voluntarily recolonized by Britain, Italy, France and...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... wellbeing."Among the least child-friendly governments are Guinea-Bissau, preceded by Eritrea, Central African Republic, Gambia, Sao Tome and Pincipe, Liberia, Chad, Swaziland, Guinea and Comoros.While many of these countries blamed their low ranking on the low performance of their economies and a lack of resources, the report states that "the Child-friendliness Index data strongly confirms...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... the creation of the UNHCR’s Consolidated Appeal Process in 1991. It comprises 12 appeals for the Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kenya, the occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, the West African region and Zimbabwe. Source African Press Agency Net News Publisher Similar Posts: UN Prepares for Repatriation of Over Half...
