(The Washington Post) – Kidnapped when he was just 16 to fight for the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army, Stephen Okot found his way to freedom and back to his family years later through a rare friendship made in the bush. Trained to kill and always fearing informers and punishment by his own comrades, Okot had […]
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(The Sun) – VALERIE was just 14 when she says she was raped by a French peacekeeper working for the United Nations. “He’d pass when I was selling bananas,” she says. “He told me he loved me and took me to a hotel. The first time he gave me $2. The second time it was $5. […]
(UNSRSG – CAAC) – The leading UN advocate for the protection and well-being of children affected by armed conflict welcomes the signing of an Action Plan to end and prevent grave violations against children between the Mouvement Patriotique pour la Centrafrique (MPC), part of the Former Séléka coalition, and the United Nations and asks for its immediate […]
(BBC) – The UN has condemned intimidation of staff and patients by armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR). Men armed with machetes, knives and other crude weapons entered hospitals in the past few months, the UN said, most recently in the town of Bambari. Terrified relatives had moved patients from Bambari hospital even though […]
(UN News) – The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) new Crop Prospects and Food Situation reveals that since its last report in March, the number of countries requiring external food assistance has jumped by two, namely Cabo Verde and Senegal, to 39. According to the report, civil war and insecurity in Africa and the Middle East have displaced […]
(Theirworld) – A generation of children are being “sacrificed” because the humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic means they are not going to school. Many children are starving and one in five babies don’t survive beyond their first birthday in a country where funding cutbacks have seen aid reduced. “It breaks my heart every […]
(TIME) – Since conflict erupted in the Central African Republic in late 2012 after the Séléka armed groups seized power from President François Bozizé, between 3,000 and 6,000 people have been killed, almost 700,000 people displaced and countless villages destroyed. The country has been locked in violence ever since, as the mainly Muslim armed groups (formerly known as […]
(UNHCR) – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed at new displacement in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 7,000 Central African Republic refugees have arrived in under a week into a situation of little help and desperate need. The refugees, most of them women and children, are concentrated in the remote village of […]
(UNICEF) – A dramatic increase in violence in the Central African Republic in the first part of 2018 has forced at least 55,000 people, including 28,600 children to flee because of brutality and violence in their communities. The already precarious humanitarian and security situation in the country has deteriorated over the past year, worsening even further […]
(Al Jazeera) – UNICEF says one of its workers and four teachers have been killed in the Central African Republic. It says a third of children are missing out on an education because of the fighting between armed groups. Many schools have been destroyed or are being used as camps for people who have escaped the violence. Link
