Posted in ACTED, africa, Central African Republic, CHF, children, DDR, disarmament, EVALUATION, health, info bulletin, MSF, rebels, street children on Dec 21st, 2011 Comments Off
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
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Posted in africa, APRD, bandits, BINUCA, Birao, Central African Republic, chad, child soldiers, children, disarmament, displacement, DRC, governance, government, human rights, humanitarian crisis, internal displacement, MICOPAX, ouham, rebels, refugees, Sam Ouandja, security, sexual violence, UFDR, united nations, violence, war crimes, Zaraguinas on Nov 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Amnesty International Press Release (20 Oct 2011)
Central African Republic: Civilians bear the brunt of decades of violence and abuses
Local and foreign armed groups in the CAR are still killing, abducting, torturing and raping civilians, as well as burning houses and looting property, Amnesty International said in a report released today.
The report Central African Republic – Action needed to end decades of abuse describes how CAR’s population has been terrorized for decades by armed groups who have been able to operate with virtual impunity.
Despite peace agreements and a fledgling Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration process, armed conflict continues to ravage the country resulting in civilian deaths and mass internal displacement.
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Posted in Bangui, campaign, CAP, Central African Republic, children, Coordinated Aid Programme, Early Recovery, FAO, humanitarian crisis, info bulletin, MSF, OCHA, refugees, UNHCR, united nations, violence, WFP on Sep 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Highlights
- Internal displaced persons (IDPs) in Markounda sub-prefecture
- The total Sanitation led by Communities approach
- Humanitarian situation on Miamani road in Bamingui-Bangoran prefecture
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Posted in ACTED, Bangui, BINUCA, CAP, Central African Republic, CHF, child soldiers, children, Coordinated Aid Programme, DDR, HDPT Briefing Material, humanitarian crisis, info bulletin, intranet, OCHA, UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, united nations, WFP, WHO on Aug 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Highlights
- IDP & Refugee Population Movemen
- Recruitment of children in armed conflict
- 2011 CAP Mid-year review
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Posted in ACTED, africa, aid, AMI, appeal, APRD, bandits, BINUCA, CAP, Central African Republic, CHF, children, Coordinated Aid Programme, coordination, displacement, DRC, Early Recovery, education, FAO, Farming, Food, gender, health, humanitarian crisis, IMC, internal displacement, LRA, malnutrition, Maps, MSF, NRC, OCHA, publications, rebels, refugees, sanitation, security, Solidarités, UFDR, UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, united nations, water, WFP, WHO on Jul 21st, 2011 Comments Off
Central African Republic: Consolidated Appeal 2011 Mid-Year Review
In the midst of a still-fragile regional context, the Central African Republic (CAR) has achieved a significant step towards peace consolidation, with the peaceful holding of national elections in early 2011. In spite of the many claims put forward by the opposition regarding the legitimacy of the parliamentary election results, incumbent President Bozize was re-elected for a second term without major incidents. However, this important achievement has not yet brought the anticipated improvements for the vast majority of the CAR population.
In the north-west where the majority of the internally displaced people are located, little progress has been made towards building an environment conducive to durable returns. Similarly, CAR refugees in both Cameroon and Chad await further guarantees before returning to their home country. Whilst a comprehensive reintegration strategy has been agreed by the Government and its partners, no concrete steps have yet been taken in the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) process, in spite of the strong will of the Government to do so.
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Posted in africa, aid, aid effectiveness, APRD, Bangui, BINUCA, Brussels, campaign, Central African Republic, children, coordination, DDR, development, disarmament, education, governance, government, hiv, info bulletin, infrastructure, Peacebuilding Fund, photos, Press, PRSP, security, UNDAF, UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, united nations, WHO on Jul 13th, 2011 Comments Off
Sommaire
- Editorial : un pas de plus vers l’approche « Unis dans l’Action »
- La communauté international mobilisée pour la RCA
- UNDAF + 2012-2016 : Trois axes prioritaires de consolidation de la paix et d’aide au développement de la République centrafricaine pour les cinq prochaines années
- De l’UNDAF 2007-2011 à l’UNDAF + 2012-2016
- CCA, UNDAF+, DSRPII et OMD
- Déclaration d’engagement de l’Equipe de Pays du SNU en République centrafricaine
- Introduction du vaccin contre les infections à pneumocoques dans le programme de vaccination systématique en RCA
- L’UNHCR appelle chacun à s’engager pour la cause des réfugiés en Centrafrique
- Formation des femmes en techniques de plaidoyer pour la mobilisation de ressources
- Mme Margaret Vogt, nouvelle Représentante Spéciale du Secrétaire Général de l’ONU en RCA
- Dr Christine Mbonyingingo, nouvelle Coordonnatrice Pays de l’ONUSIDA en RCA
- Des caméras au service de l’éducation à la citoyenneté et à la culture de paix
- Une approche concertée de promotion de la paix
- BINUCA s’engage dans « La longue marche de la RCA vers la paix »
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For further details please contact:
UN Coordination Office in CAR
Mr. Franck Bitemo
franck.bitemo@undp.org
Posted in africa, Bangui, cameroon, campaign, Central African Republic, chad, children, data, displacement, education, facts, Farming, internal displacement, Maps, refugees, UNHCR, united nations on Jul 12th, 2011 Comments Off
Highlights
- Cross-border meeting in Bangui between UNHCR Offices in Chad, Cameroon and CAR.
- Spontaneous return of CAR refugees from neighboring countries
- Final exams in secondary school for Congolese refugees in CAR
- Celebration of the World Refugee Day in Bangui and Field Offices
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For further details please contact:
UNHCR office in CAR
Mr. Djerassem Mbaiorem
Email: mbaiorem@unhcr.org | Phone: +236 21 61 32 80
Posted in ACTED, africa, Central African Republic, children, development, displacement, education, Food, health, humanitarian crisis, infrastructure, internal displacement, logistics, LRA, malnutrition, refugees, roads, sanitation, security on Jul 12th, 2011 Comments Off
Une mission d’évaluation rapide multi-sectorielle a été réalisée par l’ONG ACTED (Agence d’Aide à la Coopération Technique et au Développement) dans la sous-préfecture de Djémah du 3 au 4 juillet 2011 pour évaluer les besoins des populations de cette zone enclavée.
La sous-préfecture de Djémah souffre de l’enclavement lié à la dégradation sécuritaire sur la Préfecture du Haut-Mbomou qui limite l’accès humanitaire à la zone et donc les interventions visant à soutenir la couverture des besoins essentiels. ACTED intervient à Djémah depuis 2009 dans le cadre d’un financement EuropeAid de promotion des micro-projets. L’ONG a mené une évaluation rapide début juillet 2011 afin d’identifier les besoins multi-sectoriels des 2919 habitants de la sous-préfecture de Djémah. La ville de Djémah est divisée en 3 grands quartiers (Ourou, Fouka et Centre Urbain) composés de 6 villages (Tourombo, Fouka, Centre Urbain, Ourou I, Ourou II, Mabon).
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For further details please visit the ACTED CAR website or contact:
Julien Benoist
Country Director
ACTED CAR
julien.benoist@acted.org
Posted in ACTED, africa, aid, BINUCA, Central African Republic, children, coordination, development, facts, FAO, Food, gender, hiv, humanitarian crisis, infrastructure, internal displacement, LRA, malnutrition, Maps, NRC, OCHA, refugees, roads, UNHCR, united nations, violence, water, WFP on Jul 4th, 2011 Comments Off
Mission conjointe d’evaluation rapide de la situation des refugies, personnes deplacees internes et autres personnes vulnerables dans le sud-est de la RCA
Le plan de contingence de la République Centrafricaine (RCA) pour l’année 2011 a retenu parmi les scenarii, l’afflux d’environ 21000 refugiés du sud Soudan comme conséquence des conflits à l’issue du référendum de janvier 2011. Il prévoit également que de nombreux refugiés seraient reçus dans la zone sud-est de la RCA notamment dans la préfecture du Haut-Mbomou entre la frontière du Soudan et la ville de Mboki en passant par les villes de Bambouti et Obo, portes d’entrée en RCA et villes à proximité immédiate de la frontière.
La situation sécuritaire et humanitaire dans cette zone est précaire et pourrait s’empirer dans le temps du fait de la présence de l’Armée de Resistance du Seigneur (LRA), originaire de l’Ouganda et qui sévit dans la même zone identifiée dans le plan de contingence pour recevoir un éventuel afflux des réfugiés soudanais. La LRA utilise l’extrémité sud-est de la RCA comme un corridor pour se déplacer vers le sud Soudan où se trouverait sa base arrière. Lors des accrochages entre les Forces armées centrafricaines (FACA) et la LRA, cette dernière a conduit des représailles contre les populations civiles et les ONG internationales operant dans la zone. Ainsi, pour des raisons de securité, la présence d’acteurs humanitaires y est très limitée.
La présente mission d’évaluation rapide des besoins qui s’inscrit dans le cadre de l’Immediate Response Emergency Opération (IR EMOP preparadness) devrait permettre au bureau pays du Programme Alimentaire Mondial (PAM), ainsi qu’aux autres acteurs humanitaires de mieux comprendre la situation dans le sud-est de la RCA à travers l’évaluation de la situation humanitaire des populations en mouvements, les capacités logistiques et la capacité des partenaires à intervenir dans l’éventualité d’un accroissement des opérations du PAM dans la region.
Par ailleurs, dans le cadre des termes de réference de la mission, il est aussi prévu de procéder à l’évaluation globale de la sécurité alimentaire dans la zone, notamment la situation des refugiés, des personnes déplacées internes et celle des populations hôtes dans les villes de Obo, Mboki, Zemio (préfecture Haut Mbomou), Rafaï et Bangassou (préfecture Mbomou).
Il faut noter que la plus récente évaluation conjointe dans le sud-est à l’initiative du Bureau OCHA date de Mai 2010, à la suite des déplacements massifs internes des populations dans cette zone sous les coups de la LRA. La présente mission, en plus de mettre l’accent sur les dispositions à prendre en cas d’afflux éventuel de réfugiés soudanais, devra en même temps réévaluer la situation des réfugiés et des Personnes Déplacées Internes (PDI) déjà présents dans la region pour avoir une analyse complète de la situation dans la zone. La détérioration de la sécurité dans cette zone a eu pour consequence la reduction de la présence des acteurs humanitaires. De ce fait, les informations sont peu disponibles.
C’est dans le souci de mieux connaitre le terrain et pour parer aux éventualités que la présente mission, initiée par le PAM avec la participation des agences du SNU, ONGs et partenaires locaux, s’est déroulée dans la zone sud-est dans la période du 2 au 31 mars 2011.
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Highlights
- The death of 2 children leads to unrest in Bangui
- ICC Trust Fund for Victims in CAR
- New Maps! Areas of intervention per cluster
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Posted in ACTED, africa, aid, Central African Republic, children, data, education, facts, Food, health, internal displacement, malnutrition, Maps, OCHA, refugees, sanitation, security, sudan, UNHCR, united nations on Mar 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Between November 3 and 25 2010, two COOPI teams conducted an evaluation of the humanitarian situation in two sub-prefectures of the Haut-Mbomou prefecture, Obo and Bambouti, with a focus on the Mboki, Obo and Bambouti axis. The final report includes information on the security situation, the humanitarian actors and locations of intervention, the results of the evaluation in the sectors of education, protection, food security and livelihoods, health and water and sanitation and the questionnaire used for the evaluation.
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For further details please contact:
Sabine Jiekak
COOPI CAR
Email: jiekak@coopi.org
The UNICEF office in the Central African Republic has just published their monthly report for August 2009. It contains an overview on the current humanitarian, political and security situation, and provides an update on UNICEF’s ongoing activities in CAR.
Here is the summary of activities and events in August 2009:
- Preliminary assessments conducted in Mambéré Kadei, Sangha Mbaéré and Lobaye by MSF Spain/Belgium, MSF France and ACF revealed that 16% of children aged under 5 are acutely malnourished and 6.6% are severely acutely malnourished. UNICEF is appealing to donors for $1.5 million for lifesaving therapeutic foods, drugs and other supplies; to conduct a national nutritional survey; and train community health workers in early detection of children and women whose nutritional status is compromised.
- 6 schools rehabilitated by ACTED were inaugurated in the presence of the Minister of Education in 3 prefectures of the country: Ouham, Nana Gribizi and Bamingui Bangoran. These schools will allow 1,350 children to learn in better conditions in the upcoming new school year 2009-2010.
- Mid-Year Annual Work Plan (AWP) reviews were organised by the programme sections and sub-offices to compare the activities so far implemented to those initially planned. The AWP was revised to better reflect reality for the rest of the year.
- UNICEF provided financial support to organise training to strengthen the capacity of the school directors, teachers and parents. 130 school directors from Ouham Pendé and 59 from Bamingui Bangoran received training in school management and legislation; 274 parent-teachers from Ouham, 104 from Haute-Kotto, 90 from Bamingui Bangoran and 130 from Kémo were trained on their teaching skills; and 220 members of the PTA of Bossangoa and Bouca were trained on the role of the PTA.
- 101 children (94 boys, 17 girls) associated with armed groups who were released in July were reunified with their families and relatives. To date, UNICEF partners DRC and IRC have supported the reunification and community reintegration of a total number of 361 children (310 boys, 51 girls) formerly associated with the APRD since the child DDR programme began in May 2009.
- The preparatory work for the water and sanitation sector Round Table continued, with the opening of the website at http://tableronde-eau.minplan-rca.org/home and relevant documents uploaded on the site. The round table will be held in Bangui on 8 October 2009.
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For more information on UNICEF’s activities in the Central African Republic contact:
Hyewon Lee | Reports Officer | UNICEF CAR
Email: hlee@unicef.org | Tel. +236 75 70 63 90
Posted in aid, Central African Republic, child soldiers, children, GBV, gender, human rights, internal displacement, rebels, sexual violence, violence on Feb 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Grave violations against children are being perpetrated by all parties to the various conflicts in the Central African Republic (CAR), including rape and armed recruitment into the fighting forces, according to a United Nations report released today.
Non-State armed groups and bandits are also kidnapping children as a means of recruitment and to threaten and extort ransom from the population, while abuses against youngsters generally are committed in a climate of impunity, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon writes in his latest report to the Security Council on children and armed conflict in CAR.
“I call on all parties to the conflict to immediately and without precondition cease the recruitment and use of children and to identify and release to the United Nations those children already in their ranks,” he says.
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“If I can prevent just one girl from having to go through what I’ve experienced, then I’ve achieved something,” Foncy Kongo, 29
Every year, an estimated 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), most of these girls live in Africa. Although most governments have prohibited FGM – the partial or total removal of external genitalia – the practice persists illegally.
In the Central African Republic (CAR) about 28% of women are circumcised. In the capital city of Bangui a group of determined women work to change this. The women are part of an organization called CIAF, or the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices, which operates in 28 countries across the continent.
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The UNICEF office in the Central African Republic has just published their monthly report for November 2008. It contains a detailed overview on the current humanitarian, political and security situation, and provides an update on UNICEF’s ongoing activities in CAR.
Here is the summary of activities and events in November:
- An attack by government soldiers against presumed bandits hiding in the country’s northwest led to the execution of 7 members of the APDR and the capture of 15 other rebels. The APDR threatened to withdraw from the peace dialogue if its members aren’t released.
- A government convoy was ambushed 50km south of the border with Chad in the northeast. Nine soldiers were killed. The attackers belonged to the FDPC rebel movement.
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In early November, the city of Sam Ouanjda was attacked by 40 armed men. Five of the attackers died and many of the city’s residents fled into the bush.
- Funding of 600,000 Euros was received from ECHO to purchase therapeutic products that will be used to treat 900 children per month suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
- UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Joel Madden made a triumphant week-long trip throughout the CAR.
- A technical training center was opened by UNICEF and the Diocese of Kaga Bandoro. The center provides two years of technical and academic education to vulnerable children between the ages of 14 and18.
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For more information on UNICEF’s activities in the Central African Republic contact:
Anne Boher | Communications Officer | UNICEF CAR
Email aboher@unicef.org | Tel. +236 75 58 96 01
