The United Nations refugee agency today welcomed the decision by the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) to allow access to displaced civilians an area in the far north of the country that had been off limits to aid workers since December due to insecurity.
CLAIMS that the International Criminal Court was primarily and selectively targeting Africa were "troubling" but "did not bear scrutiny", Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo said on Friday.
The protection of 200,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) is an integral element of the peace-building process in the Central African Republic (CAR), a United Nations human rights expert said today following a week-long visit to the country.
According to a latest report, the UPDF has deployed about 7000 troops inside Central African Republic to hunt down Kony. The report released June 24 by Enough, a project of Center for American Progress to End Genocide and Crimes, details how Kony nearly walked into the UPDF fire in the CAR town of Djemah and lost a bodyguard.
An international advocacy group says that Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army rebels have continued to wage a two-year ruthless campaign of terror against civilians in the Central African Republic which has been largely ignored by the rest of the world.
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