GENEVA, Switzerland, March 10, 2014 – African Press Organization (APO) –The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is profoundly shocked by the killing today of one of its staff members in northern Central African Republic. The killing occurred in connection ...
The dire situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) – where Almost 20,000 people have reportedly crossed into Cameroon since the beginning of February to avoid the violence – was the provision agenda of the seven thousand and fourteenth meeting ...
NEW YORK, February 16, 2014 – African Press Organization (APO) –EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR VALERIE AMOS TO VISIT CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC WHO: Emergency Relief Coordinator and United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos WHAT: Mission to the Central African Republic ...
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 20, 2014 – African Press Organization (APO) –Fresh intercommunal violence has flared in western and north-western parts of the Central African Republic. Since Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Central African Red Cross ...
GENEVA, Switzerland, – African Press Organization (APO) – The deteriorating situation in the Central African Republic and the humanitarian consequences for the population are deeply troubling. The current upsurge in fighting is the deadliest the country has experienced since March. “Civilians are ...
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 31, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – With the rainy season approaching, the ICRC has been delivering food aid and seed, and seeing to it that people are provided with health care. With security still not fully restored in Bangui, ...
NEW YORK, May 13, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – Food assistance is emerging as an urgent humanitarian priority in the Central African Republic (CAR). Assessments carried out earlier this year show that many people cannot afford the little food that ...
NEW YORK, – African Press Organization (APO) – Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki moon’s message to the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) extraordinary summit on the Central African Republic in N’djaména, Chad, 3 April: I would like to commend ...
PARIS, France, March 29, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – Six days after Seleka rebels took control of Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic, only one hospital in the city is functioning. A team from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without ...
NEW YORK, March 25, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The Secretary-General condemns the unconstitutional seizure of power that took place in the Central African Republic (CAR) on 24 March 2013 and calls for the swift restoration of constitutional order. ...
BANGUI, February 2, 2011 (AFP) – Francois Bozize has been re-elected president of the Central African Republic, according to provisional results released by the electoral commission on Tuesday. The commission said Bozize received 66.08 percent of the vote in the January ...
BANGUI, January 21, 2011 (AFP) – The destitute Central African Republic votes for a new president and parliament on Sunday with peace the prize for a resource-rich country undercut by years of instability and rebellion. Incumbent Francois Bozize is tipped to ...