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Highlights

  • Refugees and asylum seekers in CAR (by country of origin)
  • Working with partners
  • UNHCR operation in 2011 (in ‘000 USD)
  • Achievements
  • UNHCR Staff

Download the Fact Sheet | UNHCR Operation in CAR January 2012

Fact Sheet | UNHCR Operation in CAR January 2012 (PDF) (895 Ko) (English version) >>

Fact Sheet | UNHCR Operation in CAR January 2012 (PDF) (900 Ko) (French version) >>

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

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

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The Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) in the Central African Republic (CAR) was critical in 2010 to cover the most immediate assessed needs of about 1.6 million people in the North West, North East and South East of the country. Sustained generous contributions from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden have allowed further predictability and flexibility, hence relevance of the overall humanitarian response in country. Whether UN agencies or Non governmental organisations, recipient partners have demonstrated strong commitment to address critical needs in most often trying circumstances. The standard allocation process has involved a wide range of stakeholders through the CHF Advisory Board, the Humanitarian Country Team and within the respective clusters.

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Highlights

  • Conflict between CPJP and UFDR rebels
  • International Day of Peace
  • OCHA organises a 2012 CAP workshop

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Highlights

  • Conflict between CPJP and UFDR rebels
  • Emergency education in the Haute-Kotto prefecture
  • Logistics cluster

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Sommaire

  • Visite de travail du RSSG et Chef de l’UNOCA à Bangui
  • Élections législatives partielles
  • Célébration du 51ème anniversaire de la proclamation de l’Indépendance de la RCA
  • Actualités politiques
  • Activités de la Section Droits de l’Homme et Justice
  • Activités de l’Unité des Institutions de Sécurité
  • Activités SNU
  • Activités du staff

Read more by downloading the BINUCA Infos N°17, Août 2011 (PDF – 2.46 Mo) (French version only) >>

Highlights

  • Registration of refugee returnees in Ouham Pendé
  • Fresh displacement in Tira 1 and 2 in sub prefecture of Batangafo
  • Capacity building of teachers in refugee camps
  • Training of refugees in computer and Internet

Read more by downloading the Fact Sheet | August 2011 (842 Ko) >>

For further details please contact:

UNHCR office in CAR
Mr. Djerassem Mbaiorem
Email: mbaiorem@unhcr.org | Phone: +236 21 61 32 80

The campaign is publishing a series of first-person accounts of people who have been forced to flee their homes in the Central African Republic.


Caroline Ngoena.

Caroline Ngoena is thirty nine years old, she lives in the town of Paoua in north western CAR. Pig breeding is how she earns a living for her family of 7 children, she’s also the chairwoman of Yekwa Group in the town. Caroline’s life was turned upside down in March 2006 when violence came to the town.

“We realized that death was at hand. Everyone had to fend for themselves in order to escape death. We didn’t have time to think about the animals because they were sleeping outside. We fled into the bush, 32 kilometres away. We spent three months living in the bush like this.”

Read Caroline’s story here

Campaign website

Please check back on our campaign page as we add stories and photos from displaced communities around the country.

The campaign is publishing a series of first-person accounts of people who have been forced to flee their homes in the Central African Republic.


Augustine with her young son.

Augustine has five children and is six months pregnant. She lives in the bush not far from her home in a small village in north western CAR. Augustine miscarried her last pregnancy and is re-building her home in the village, preparing to move back in order to be nearer to hospital facilities when she has to give birth. It’s been six years since she and her family fled their house.

“If the Chadians came and shot at you, would you stay here? I think you would choose to run away from your home and save your life. We are re-building our house, we will come back to the village, life is better in the village – we can get a taxi motorbike to the town and get treatment. But the minute there is gunfire, we will go back to the bush.”

Read Augustine’s story here

Campaign website

Please check back on our campaign page as we add stories and photos from displaced communities around the country.

The campaign is publishing a series of first-person accounts of people who have been forced to flee their homes in the Central African Republic.

Clarissa with one of her surviving sons.
Clarissa with one of her surviving sons.

Clarissa Dendoubou is from a small village in north western CAR, about 40 kilometres from the border with Chad. Her peaceful life with her husband and 7 children was torn apart one Saturday morning in February 2003.

Read Clarissa’s story here

Background

The government and armed opposition have stepped back from the brink of civil war in the Central African Republic and an uneasy and uneven peace has come to the country. Violations of the peace agreement are frequent, banditry and increasingly fragmented armed groups are continuing to spread fear.

Tens of thousands of CAR’s displaced population – both within the country and beyond its borders – have started to return home, only to find their houses destroyed and their fields overgrown. Some are returning under duress, some of their own free will.

And alongside this pattern of returns in questionable circumstances, new displacements are still taking place – this very mixed pattern is expected to continue in 2009 and into 2010.

It’s essential that the needs of CAR’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are prioritised as the country prepares to move into the next stage of early recovery, that’s what this advocacy campaign on IDPs is here to do: to work with media and humanitarian partners to draw attention to the plight of the most vulnerable victims of the civil war in this country.

Campaign website

Please check back on our campaign page as we add stories and photos from displaced communities around the country.