Humanitarian aid workers with Doctors Without Borders are scaling back their work at a site in the Central African Republic due to continued violent attacks including armed robberies and sexual assault. The organizations said two “grave incidents” at their site in and around the town of Batangafo occurred in the…
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The !Kung San people of Botswana and the Bofi, living in Central African Republic (C.A.R.), are among 12 communities on the African continent that researchers studied to determine that women also hunt within their cultures, despite long-standing assumptions about the division of labor in hunter-gatherer societies. They’re among 63 separate…
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A week-long ceasefire in Sudan may lead to talks, but fighting in Sudan still has the potential to cause additional regional instability and the United Nations has again called for both sides in Sudan to put the interest of the Sudanese people first and foremost. “The ongoing conflict in Sudan,…
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African countries account for seven of the 10 most at-risk nations for climate disaster, according to a new report from the International Rescue Committee (IRC). The organization, with global headquarters in the United States, put Somalia at the top of the list due to its extreme food insecurity made worse…
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France’s Castel Group, one of the largest wine producers in the world, says it will launch an investigation into claims that it paid armed group members to provide security for its operations in the Central African Republic. The company’s announcement follows an investigation by The Sentry, a human rights and…
The elections last month in Central African Republic brought a fresh wave of political violence affecting more than 200,000 people who are now displaced, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). “The continuing volatility has hampered the humanitarian response and made access to the internally displaced more…
United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) said Wednesday that the town of Bambari remains under their control, and has not been captured by armed groups as previously reported. Vladimir Monteiro, a spokesman for the MINUSCA peacekeeping mission, said that some rebels attacked soldiers on Tuesday and began…
United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic are helping to battle the coronavirus pandemic alongside the government led by President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, and one of their priorities is shutting down misinformation about COVID-19. MINUSCA is distributing 50,000 solar-powered radios to communities in CAR to improve people’s access to health…
MINUSCA, the United Nations mission in Central African Republic (CAR), said Monday that its officials are targets of a new smear campaign in newspapers and on social media. Their statement comes as some groups in CAR plan demonstrations next week to oppose certain UN officials, who they accuse of giving…
Tibor Nagy, the Assistant Secretary for African Affairs for the United States, will begin a five-nation tour on the African continent on Wednesday. Nagy will visit the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan and Sudan during the two-week journey. The trip will highlight a U.S. commitment to African youth,…
Central African Republic, Lesotho and The Gambia have had their United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voting privileges suspended because of a failure to pay required member dues. The decision is in line with rules under the UN charter that withhold the voting privileges when a nation meets or exceeds the…
Cameroon will lose its preferred trade status under the United States African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) on January 1, following the U.S. decision to revoke its status because of its human rights record. U.S. President Donald Trump announced the decision in October, but confirmed it by a proclamation issued…
The Human Rights Watch organization says that while last week’s extension of the United Nations peacekeeping mandate in Central African Republic is needed for protecting civilians, attacks against them continue despite a peace deal earlier this year. The rights group says there are still reports of attacks in Ouham-Pendé, Kemo,…
The Central African Republic has, for the second year in a row, topped the list of nations whose people suffer from hunger – and did so with a Global Hunger Index (GHI) score that makes it the only country in the world where hunger is rated as extremely alarming. The…
There’s been renewed concern over violence in the Central African Republic of late, and now the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for the region says the situation is worse following recent attacks in the northeastern town of Birao. Armed attacks at the weekend, which came two weeks after the fighting on…