Small children and women in colourful headscarves cluster around the altar, bundles of their belongings piled high near a statue of the Virgin Mary. In the Central African town of Boali, the local church has become a refuge for some 700 Muslims fleeing…
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17 January 2014 – More than 6,000 child soldiers may now be involved in the conflict in the Central African…
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The recent violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) and the…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — By Antoine Mbao Bogo, president of the Central African Republic Red…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Director of Operations,…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has called on leaders elected by the African people to individually and collectively pledge…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has advocated an improved trade relations among African countries for speedy economic growth in…
The UN has warned that bloodshed in the Central African Republic could turn into genocide as horrors continue to unfold in the country where parliament is preparing to choose a new leader. Violence in the highly unstable country has not let up despite…
16 January 2014 – Donors have provided only 6 per cent of the $247 million that the United Nations needs…
15 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights chief today urged African leaders attending a high-level meeting in Angola…
VIENNA, Austria, January 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Austria is making a solidary contribution for alleviating the dramatic humanitarian…
One of South Africa’s two polar bears has died at the Johannesburg Zoo, leaving its mate now believed to be the only polar bear in Africa, a veterinarian said Wednesday. Geebee, the 29-year-old polar bear, came from Canada and had long survived the…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 14, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM today hopes to begin an airlift to evacuate some 550…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Over the past two days, some 60 wounded people have been…
BANGUI, Central African Republic, January 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — As was done by the Secretary-General, the Special Representative…
11 January 2014 – Following the resignation of the Central African Republic’s two interim leaders, the top United Nations official…
10 January 2014 – Facing worsening refugee crises in strife-torn Central African Republic (CAR) and South Sudan, the United Nations…
9 January 2014 – There is a real danger of further upheaval along religious lines in the Central African Republic…
8 January 2014 – A United Nations human rights expert today called for urgent protection and increased assistance to the…