[VOA]The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders is reducing its operations in Central African Republic for one week. The move is to protest the recent killings of 16 civilians, including three staffers, at a northern hospital....
[IRIN]Bangui -Thousands of youths in the Central African Republic's capital, Bangui, are set to be given jobs in a donor-funded public works scheme that as well as revamping basic infrastructure is designed to reduce the level of violence which in recent months has claimed hundreds of lives, prompted most of the city's Muslim population to flee and caused looting and destruction of property on a massive...
[Sudan Tribune]Khartoum -Sudanese parliament expressed readiness to provide all the necessary support to achieve a national dialogue process in the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) where lawmakers are expected to adopt a new constitution this month....
[ICRC]Murder, pillage and flight from the violence continue to be all too frequent in the lives of Central Africans....
[News of Rwanda]The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and Chief of MISCA, Gen. (rtd) Jean Marie Michel MOKOKO has conveyed a congratulatory message to Peacekeepers of Rwanda Mechanised Infantry Battalion (RwaMechBatt1) serving in the African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic (MISCA). The message was delivered on International Labour...
[UN News]The head of United Nations peacekeeping operations continued today his visit to the Central African Republic (CAR), where he met a range of stakeholders and pledged that "no effort will be spared" towards full deployment of a newly mandated 12,000-strong UN mission to help stabilize the crisis-riven country....
[MediaGlobal]United Nations -The United Nations leader of humanitarian operations John Ging warned that the Central African Republic (CAR) "continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate" even as the international community fails to provide the needed resources and political commitment to aid the 1 million people affected by the violence....
[Deutsche Welle]The power struggle in Central African Republic and the violence between Christian and Muslim militias hamper the work of the country's journalists. Providing up-to-date, objective reporting is a major challenge....
[VOA]Bangui -Aid donors have come up with a plan to put young people back to work in the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui - at least for a few weeks. C.A.R. authorities say they hope this will keep restive youths out of trouble and enable them to restart their own businesses....
[UNHCR]Bangui -A national staff member of the UN Refugee Agency in the Central African Republic was killed on 1 May 2014 in Bangui. The UNHCR employee was abducted in the morning from the PK16 district of the CAR's capital and his body was recovered in the afternoon of the same day....
[UN News]As the unprecedented crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) continues to deepen, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has accelerated its operations - distributing 60 per cent more food in April than in March....
[UN News]With rival Christian and Muslim militias stoking inter-communal violence and spreading fear throughout the Central African Republic (CAR), a senior United Nations relief official today urged the international community to uphold its pledges - and responsibility - to provide the security and resources to ease the crisis and prevent the country from splitting along religious lines....
[Unicef]"UNICEF is outraged by the attack on a health centre that killed 22 civilians, including three aid workers with the medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in the northern town of Boguila, Central African Republic, on Saturday 26 April....
[UNHCR]Bangui, Central African Republic -The UN refugee agency on Tuesday stressed the need to provide physical protection to forcibly displaced communities a day after a fatal grenade attack on a humanitarian convoy....
[UNHCR]This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Fatoumata Lejeune - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 29 April 2014, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva....
[WFP]Bangui -While the recent violence has wrecked countless lives in C.A.R., its effects have hit children the hardest. Forced to flee their homes and abandon school, they often find their parents now cannot feed them adequately....
[ACNS]Conciliation Resources has been supporting religious leaders in the Central African Republic (CAR) to support local interfaith "peace committees"....
[VOA]U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling to Africa for talks on violence in South Sudan and the Central African Republic....
[Deutsche Welle]Medecins Sans Frontieres will suspend activities in a Central African Republic town. It was a response to rebels opening fire in a hospital in Boguila, killing at least 16, including three MSF health workers....
[World Bank]Washington -The World Bank has mobilized a total of US$30 million from the International Development Association (IDA)* to help re-establish an operational government payroll and related financial management systems in the Central African Republic (CAR) following a surge in violence that overwhelmed the country in March 2013....