Highlights

• 1–Editorial
• 2-Suite Editorial
• 3-Le Projet de Relance des Cultures Vivrières et du Petit Elevage dans les Sa-vanes. (PREVES)
• 4-Le Projet d’évaluation des Investissements Agri-coles (PEI)
• 5-Suite PEI
• 6-Les Produits Forestiers Non Ligneux (PFNL)
• 7-Le NERICA (Nouvelles Variétés de Riz en Afri-que )
• 8-Le Projet GCP : Appui aux Groupements en Ele-vage des Caprins
• 9-Le Projet GCP : Forma-tion de renforcement de Capacité des Groupements
• 10-Le Projet MANIOC

Read more by downloading the Bulletin d’information de la FAO (2.25 MB) (French version only) >>

Highlights

• FDPC and FPR fighting between Kabo and Batangafo
• 115 new Congolese refugees in Obo (south-east)
• BINUCA mandate extended through 2012

Download the bulletin in English (PDF) 385kb or Français (PDF) 385kb

For more information or for contributions to this newsletter, please contact:
Laura Fultang | fultangl@un.org | +236 70 18 80 64
Gisèle Willybiro- Maïdou | willybiro@un.org | +236 70 18 80 61

The international NGO Danish Refugee Council together with national NGO Echelle have completed the analysis and report of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) profiling exercise conducted in May 2011. Read the summary of the report (598kb) (French version only) here and the full report (3,250kb) (French version only) here.

For more information, please contact:

Lukas Rüst
Protection Coordinator
Danish Refugee Council
Central African Republic
protection.car@drc.dk

Sommaire

• Signature du plan d’action du plan cadre des Nations Unies pour la consolidation de la paix et l’aid au développement en République centrafricaine (UNDAF+) 2012-2016
• Voeux 2012 du Représentant Spécial Adjoint du Secrétaire Général de l’ONU
• La Caravane de la Paix et de la Réconciliation : « Siriri a ga awe !», « Siriri ayeke kota mossoro » (« La paix est de retour ! », « La paix est la plus précieuse des richesses »)
• Le Secrétaire Général de l’ONU a salué les initiatives de réconciliation en RCA
• Deux Nouveaux Bâtiments à l’hôpital préfectoral de N’délé
• Au-delà de la Caravane, finaliser le processus de DDR en RCA : 22 millions de dollars requis
• Interview-bilan de M. Bo Schack, RSASG, CR, CH, RR : « J’ai appris la patience, l’humilité aussi et une certaine détermination à toujours regarder vers l’avant… »
• Communiquer ensemble

Read more by downloading the bulletin (1.7mb) (French version only) >>

Highlights

• FDPC attack on the road between Batangafo and Kabo
• New MSF report highlights dire health situation
• Joint mission to monitor and evaluate CHF projects

Download the bulletin in English (PDF) 173kb or Français (PDF) 175kb

For more information or for contributions to this newsletter, please contact:
Laura Fultang | fultangl@un.org | +236 70 18 80 64
Gisèle Willybiro- Maïdou | willybiro@un.org | +236 70 18 80 61

This is a plea for the Central African Republic. The Central African Republic (CAR) today finds itself in a state of chronic medical emergency. Five separate retrospective mortality surveys, carried out by MSF and other researchers, in prefectures accounting for the majority of the population, show excess mortality above what is considered to be the “emergency threshold.”

And yet the commitment by the country’s government and by the international community is going in the wrong direction. The government has been decreasing its investments in health, as have international donors, while humanitarian assistance has failed to reduce the widespread medical crisis.

The risk is high that the Central African Republic will become trapped: not considered urgent enough for significant emergency aid; not considered trustworthy enough for meaningful development assistance.

For the sake of CAR’s 4.4 million people, this cannot be allowed to happen. Existing levels of medical assistance are plainly insufficient to the scale of the needs. The country needs more actors conducting larger medical operations that reach more of the population.

In this paper, we outline the experiences, analyses and concerns of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) after 14 years working in the country. The report opens with a summary of the published evidence on CAR’s mortality over the past 18 months by MSF and other researchers. We then analyse the various causes for this before summarising the inadequate existing levels of assistance provided by all the various actors, including firstly the government of CAR, but also the international community including ourselves. We conclude with a call for greater medical assistance to the country.

Read more by downloading the MSF | Central African Republic: A State of Silent Crisis (PDF) (2.3 Mb) (English version only) >>

Highlights

• An ICRC convoy attacked on the Ngarba road
• Financial needs of the population of the North-West
• Inter-organisation mission in Sikikèdé

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Read the latest ECHO Crisis Report on the CAR covering the period between 1 January and 30 November 2011, with information on the overall situation, needs assessment, local and international humanitarian response, local and international protection response, coordination mechanisms and recommendations. Download the report here (910kb) >>

Read the report from the inter-organisation mission to Sikikédé, in the Vakaga province of north-eastern CAR, which took place on Friday 25 November 2011. This was the first joint mission since September 2010. Download the report here (125kb) >>

See photos from the mission on the photos page >>

For more details, please contact:

Lauren Paletta
Information Management Officer, OCHA CAR
paletta@un.org

Christian Mulamba
Head of Mission, IMC CAR
cmulamba@internationalmedicalcorps.org

Highlights

• Two soldiers are killed in Danga
• Radhika Coomaraswamy visits the CAR
• Logistics cluster

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Highlights

• A caravan for peace travels in the North
• ACTED assessment mission in the Lobaye prefecture
• New map and report on displacement

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