About 1,400 displaced people are living in the village of Kamba Kota (Ouham) in terrible health and security conditions. They fled their villages following attacks by armed bandits, who reportedly killed 37 people. The banditry victims come from Kambandja, Kassai and Kagoué II villages on the road to Ouogo to the north of Kamba Kota.
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An upsurge in attacks by armed bandits in the north of the Central African Republic since early 2008 has made banditry the major cause of new displacement in the country. Up to a third of an estimated 300,000 people who have been forced out of their homes have fled from bandit attacks.
Groups of between 10 […]
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Like about 197,000 other Central Africans, the inhabitants of Combattant 1 in Paoua are internally displaced people. To escape violence in 2003, they left the city for the bush. For five years now, they have been living in Ota and Dinga, about 10 kilometres from Paoua.
They stay in small houses by their fields and […]
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By Gina Bramucci, IRC: After nearly two years of displacement, conflict-affected communities in Central African Republic are rebuilding and returning to their villages of origin. An International Rescue Committee (IRC) team in the northern region of Nana Gribizi has been implementing emergency response, environmental health, health, protection, Gender Based Violence (GBV) and education programming since […]
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(Anthony Morland, IRIN)
KAGA-BANDORO - After hiding in the bush for more than a year, families in the northern Central African Republic (CAR) regions of Ouaham and Nana Grebizi are starting to return to their roadside villages.
Clashes between government forces and the Armée Populaire pour la Restauration de la Démocratie (APRD, People’s Army for the Restoration […]
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(Anthony Morland, IRIN) - “Can you help me find my husband?” asked an elderly resident of this dusty, traumatised town in the northwest of the Central African Republic (CAR).
The old woman explained she had last seen him three months previously when he and his brother were kidnapped by bandits known as Zaraguina just outside Paoua.
Asked […]
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More than 2,700 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are currently living on a site near Kabo, Central African Republic, and new people are arriving every day. Returning from the site, a joint evaluation mission, including staff from OCHA and BONUCA, as well as donor representatives, described the humanitarian situation as very precarious.
Meeting with the mayor of […]
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At the same time that UNHCR is registering 10,500 new refugees from the Béhili area in north west CAR, a substantial number of Central African refugees are returning from Chad to the area of Moyenne Sido and Kabo, only 50km east of Béhili. These returning refugees fled the Central African Republic during 2002 and 2003, […]
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UNICEF in the Central African Republic has just published their report for December 2007 and January 2008. As always, it contains an excellent overview on the current humanitarian, political and security situation, as well as information on UNICEF’s project activities in CAR.
EU Peacekeeping force officially launched; arrival of first troops in CAR and Chad delayed […]
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It is a hot afternoon in Bouar – the sun is blazing down over the houses on the hill slopes that make up CAR’s third largest town. We are on a United Nations inter-agency mission in western CAR, near the border with Cameroon and right on the trading route which connects the landlocked capital Bangui […]
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The UNICEF representation in the Central African Republic has just published their monthly report for November 2007. It contains an excellent overview on the current humanitarian, political and security situation, as well as a description of UNICEF’s projects in CAR.
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During their stay in the Central African Republic, Reuters journalists produced a fascinating 8 minute video feature on the APRD rebels in the Paoua area. Their footage includes APRD soldiers and child soldiers training and explaining their motives. Best video on the rebellion in north-eastern CAR so far.
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Posted in APRD, Central African Republic, Darfur, Sam Ouandja, UFDR, child soldiers, disarmament, displacement, humanitarian crisis, rebels, refugees, security, violence on Aug 27th, 2007
Below a small brief on the security situation in the first half of 2007, taken from the Mid-Year Review of aid operations in CAR.
This is a good first introduction to the rebellion in the north and other security problems in the Central African Republic.
For more info, please read the full Mid-Year Review of our Coordinated […]
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An Aljazeera team travelled to Sam Ouandja to document the situation of the now more than 2,700 refugess from Darfur.
The refugees had arrived in CAR after walking for more than 10 days during nights, after there home town Daffaq had been bombed. Sam Ouandja in CAR is extremely difficult to access by road from Bangui. […]
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Fighting between rebels groups (APRD in the north-west, UFDR in the north-east) intensified in late 2006. More than two-hundred thousands people have been forced to flee their homes and are seeking refuge in the bush. There they live in deplorable conditions without clean drinking water, health-care, education for their children and without food supplies. The […]
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