(Deutsche Welle) – US military operations against the Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa are “coming to an end,” a top American general said on Friday, even though its brutal leader Joseph Kony has not been captured. “This operation, although not achieving the ability to get to Kony himself, has essentially taken that group off the battlefield,” […]
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(Human Rights Watch) – Armed groups in the Central African Republic have occupied, looted, and damaged school buildings, preventing children from getting an education, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 39-page report, “No Class: When Armed Groups Use Schools in the Central African Republic,” documents how armed groups, and even soldiers from […]
(NBC) -Joseph Kony’s army of child soldiers robbed central Africa of a generation, and the self-proclaimed Christian prophet has been accused of murder, rape, kidnapping and torture by the International Criminal Court. NBC News reports that the United States considers Kony a “specially designated global terrorist,” and it’s the Green Berets’ mission to “apprehend or […]
(BBC) – Uganda has about 2,500 soldiers stationed in the Central African Republic (CAR). The mission, which began in 2009, aims to hunt down Joseph Kony and members of his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). But now the Ugandan army is being accused of committing sexual crimes similar to those carried out by the group it’s meant […]
(CAJ News) – SOME 10 000 children have been demobilized from armed forces in the war-ravaged Central African Republic.They are being reintegrated into society following the ratification of the optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict in October 2016. The minors were forcible recruited into armed groups during the crisis gripping the country. However, […]
(VOA News) – Last year, humanitarian aid workers in the Central African Republic were involved in more than 365 security incidents — more than Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. The security challenges in the C.A.R. make it difficult for aid workers to stay safe and to deliver much needed aid. About 2.2 million people here […]
(UNOG) – The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of the Central African Republic on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Flavien Mbata, Minister of Justice, Human Rights, and Keeper of the Seals of the Central African Republic, introducing the report, said that the […]
(United Nations Meetings Coverage and Press Releases) – At its sixtieth meeting, on 2 December 2016, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, in connection with the examination of the third report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Central African Republic (S/2016/133), agreed to address the following messages […]
(UN News Centre) – Due to a lack of funding, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is running a risk of soon needing to halt its aid to 150,000 people in crisis-torn Central African Republic (CAR) who have been displaced by violence. This year, WFP aimed to support some one million people but only […]
(HRW) – For children in many parts of the world, 2016 could not have been worse. From the siege of Aleppo in Syria to frightening percentages of children at risk in Yemen, events have reminded us over and over again of how we have failed children. Yet amidst all the grim news, 2016 also brought some […]
