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UN Food Agency Appeals for Help to Avert Deepening Crisis
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 17, 2007
he United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for increased international donor support to avert a deepening humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), where hundreds of thousands of people displaced by war and civil conflict are in urgent need of food ... more
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Number of internally displaced people doubled in 2006
Topix - Monday, April 16, 2007
p> From correspondents in Geneva, Switzerland, 06:35 PM IST Four million people were driven from their homes by conflict or human rights violations in 2006, twice as many as in 2005, according to a global survey ... via India eNews ... more
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Sudan: UN Returns Final Group of Refugees from CAR
Topix - Sunday, April 15, 2007
p> The United Nations refugee agency has wrapped up its voluntary repatriation programme for southern Sudanese who had been living in the Central African Republic , with almost 10,000 people having returned home ... via AllAfrica.com ... more
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UN Returns Final Group of Refugees from CAR
allAfrica.com - Saturday, April 14, 2007
he United Nations refugee agency has wrapped up its voluntary repatriation programme for southern Sudanese who had been living in the Central African Republic (CAR), with almost 10,000 people having returned home since early last year to try to rebuild their ... more
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Central African Rebels Want Peace
Topix - Friday, April 13, 2007
p> A Central African Republic rebel group said Friday that it is prepared to sign a peace deal to end hostilities and share power, leaders of the group said. via Newsday.com ... more
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Darfur the BBc's Unusual Humanitarian Effort
Topix - Wednesday, April 11, 2007
p> There are precious few positive news stories to report out of Darfur. It's especially noteworthy, then, when one encounters a group of Sudanese men and women who risk their lives on a daily basis to improve the ... via Fredericksburg.com ... more
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UN's Top Humanitarian Official Calls for Urgent Aid for Three States
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
t the current rate, if the situation in Sudan's Darfur region continues, over half the population in the region could be displaced within the next 18 months, John Holmes, the Under-Secretary-General for the United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has ... more
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Sudan: UN's Top Humanitarian Official Calls for Urgent Aid for Three States
Topix - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
p> At the current rate, if the situation in Sudan's Darfur region continues, over half the population in the region could be displaced within the next 18 months, John Holmes, the Under-Secretary-General for the ... via AllAfrica.com ... more
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Army recaptures last rebel-held town
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ANGUI Monday, December 11, 2006 (IRIN) - The army has recaptured a town in the northeast of the Central African Republic, the last of several held by rebels since November, a spokesman for President François Bozize said on ... more
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 361 for 9-15 December 2006
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
AIROBI Friday, December 15, 2006 (IRIN) - Presidents from several Great Lakes countries signed a pact at the end of a two-day summit in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Friday to address security, stability and development across the ... more
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CAR: Tens of thousands of villagers on the run
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
AGA BANDORO Tuesday, December 19, 2006 (IRIN) - Around Dikba Elisiâ??s oldest childâ??s neck is a plastic whistle, so that if the family is forced to flee into maize fields and the children get lost, the adults have a better chance of finding them. ... more
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CAR: Blame game as villages burn
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
AGA BANDORO Tuesday, December 19, 2006 (IRIN) - The burning and looting of villages across north-central Central African Republic (CAR) has scattered thousands of civilians from their homes while the rebels and the army blame each other for aggravating the ... more
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GLOBAL: More money for CERF, but challenges remain
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
EW YORK Thursday, December 21, 2006 (IRIN) - The high-level conference on the expanded United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) held in New York on 7 December was significant for two reasons: it was well attended, and the response was unprecedented, with 51 donors - including 16 new ones... more
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CAR-SUDAN: South Sudanese refugees begin short hop home
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
BOKI Thursday, December 21, 2006 (IRIN) - South Sudanese refugees in the Central African Republic (CAR) have begun returning home on repatriation flights following a two-year wait for the security situation back home to improve, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, ... more
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CAR: Jamaique Badibanga (18), "I have nowhere to go"
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
OLANGUE Monday, January 15, 2007 (IRIN) - "My name is Jamaïque Badibanga. I am 18 years old and from the Democratic Republic of Congo. I am an orphan, and for six years now I have been living as a refugee in CAR [Central African Republic]. ... more
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IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
EW YORK Wednesday, January 17, 2007 (IRIN) - Fighting between unidentified groups in Central African Republicâ??s crisis-ridden north has left one million people in need of humanitarian assistance, the majority of which have been directly exposed to conflict, said the countryâ??s Humanitarian Coordinator, Toby Lanzer, on Tuesday. ... more
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: No refuge from HIV
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ANGUI Wednesday, January 17, 2007 (IRIN) - After the traumas of war and forced exile, HIV is an additional hardship for many refugees living in the small huts of clay and straw in a camp at Molangue, Central African Republic (CAR), near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo... more
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Refugees stranded in Sudanese town
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
M-DAFOCK Wednesday, January 31, 2007 (IRIN) - Since fleeing his home in northern Central African Republic on 3 December 2006, Abdoulay Douga Mandja Noel, 40, has lived rough in a border town called Am-Dafock shared by the CAR and Sudan. ... more
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Better times ahead for the Aka
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
ANGUI Thursday, February 08, 2007 (IRIN) - They have suffered marginalisation as well as discrimination because of their short stature and preference for a hunter-gathering way of life. Known as pygmies, they are among the 300 million or so indigenous peoples on Earth, according to Cheick Sangare of the Human... more
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CAR: Rebel activity fuels insecurity in the northeast
IRIN - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
AGA-BANDORO Thursday, February 08, 2007 (IRIN) - People in the town of Kaga-Bandoro in northeastern Central African Republic (CAR) continue to live in fear as the region remains volatile. ... more
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