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  • clothesbiz6
    Jan 8 2013, 07:57

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  • Peter Carlos Hinds
    Jan 12 2013, 09:19

    This is a message to all fighting in the field of the central African republic(CAR).In no wise are you to stop fighting.Peace treaty or no peace treaty.But are to continue fighting.Obeying the officers put in charge of you.I am asking the officers of the rebels in this war to appoint diplomats and ambassadors.Then get them (diplomats and ambassadors)to ask Britian for military and logistical assistance.Peter Carlos Hinds.

    • Central African Republic: Temporary Ceasefire Agreed With CAR Rebels

      The New Times (Kigali), 12 January 2013

      The different parties in the Central African Republic's crisis who have been meeting in Libreville for peace talks since Wednesday, will sign a ceasefire agreement in the next one week to retain President Francois Bozize in power, a source close to the negotiators in Libreville told Xinhua yesterday.

    • Central African Republic: UN Envoy Calls On International Community to Engage More With Central African Republic

      UN News Service, 11 January 2013

      In the wake of agreements reached today to end a rebellion in the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations envoy for the country today said that the international community now needs to engage more forcefully, both diplomatically and financially, to pull the CAR from the brink.

  • Salvador Ezequiel Echek
    Jan 14 2013, 04:53

    The Army should totally be seperated and stay away from the political arena; their role should be understood as that of defending the nation therefore the need to be well trained and armed. Government should know that their role is to serve the people and not vice versa thus democracy and good governance should be the rule. Finger should not be pointed at one side only, for both are culprits. Whilst political desire is going on both side should open way for economic development in all sectors as trust that will minimize the people fear of instability. Congratulations to the international and regional communities for the peace achievement thru dialogue.

    • Central African Republic: President Vows to Stay Put, Proposes Unity Government

      The New Times (Kigali), 5 January 2013

      President Francois Bozize of the Central African Republic (CAR) has reaffirmed that he would reject the rebel's demand to step down as related parties are working to decide on a date to begin planned peace talks in Gabon.

    • Central African Republic: Child Recruitment By Armed Groups Must End - UN

      UN News Service, 4 January 2013

      The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today called on the Central African Republic (CAR) to immediately stop child recruitment by rebel groups and pro-government militias amidst reports of increasing use of this practice.

  • ras sideeq
    Jan 5 2013, 10:41

    THIS HAS BEEN A PROBELM FOR CENTURIES THE EUROPEANS THE AMERICANS STIL RECRUIT CHILDREN ,16 YEARS OLD IS STILL A CHILD ?? .SO FOR THEM TO SPEAK WITH SUCH HYPOCRISY DRIPPING FROM THIER MOUTHS IS ALARMING!!!. THEY HAVE BEEN IN AFRICA FOR CENTURIES AND THEY HAVE NOT BROUGHT ANY TRUE REAL DEVELOPMENT FOR AFRICA WHICH GIVES THEM THIS PEROGATIVE TO PATRONISE ,SCOLD AND SPEAK LIKE THEY ARE SPEAKING TO SOMEONE WHOM THEY HAVE EDUCATED AND WHO KNOWS BETTER??? THIS IS JUST ALOT OF HOOPLADADIDOO!!!. THEY HAVE EXPLOITED THE SAME CHILDREN THEY ARE RFEREING TO, IN REGARDS TO GETTING RAW RESOURCES FOR THEIR RICH LIFE STYLES!!. THEY HAVE NOT ENTERED ANY REAL CHANGES OR ERADICATING POVERTY WHILST A RULER OR NOW AS NEGOS AND HRW' THEY ARE FANTASIST WHO WISHES TO BY PROXY RULE OVER AFRICAN LIVES MAKING NO DONATIONS AS FAR EMPWEORMENT TO SKIL EDUCATION OR SECURITY ; WE SEE THEY WANT AFRICANS TO COME TO EUROPE TO BE TRIED AND JUDGED BY WHITES WITH TOKEN "NEGORS" AS PROSECUTORS AND SO ON; THIS IS ALL FOOLISHNESS BACKWARDSNESS AND FOR THE WEAK OF HEART. "AFRICA IS REVOLVING EVOLVING INTO A A REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD WHERE PEOPLE ARE SEEKING FROM SHERE POVERTY, DISILLUSIONED, EMBITTERD TO EMPOWER THEMSELVES AND SEEK TO REBUILD ABD BUILD STRONG ECONOMIES WITH A FUTURE DESIGNED WITH OWNERSHIP". THE WEST HAS BEEN RELECUTANT TO HAVE AFRICANS EDUCATED AND ABLE TO EXTRACT REFINE AND CONTORL THIER RESOURCES', THEY HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO SEE EXTERME POVERTY ILLIETERACY .. 'INSTEAD OF HAVING WARS ON TERRORISM OR ON DRUGS WE NEED WARS ON ILLIETARCY IGNORANCE!!!. THESE THINSGS THEY ARE UNWILLING TO CHANGE IN AFRICA THEY WANT TO BE DOMINANT PLAYERS AUTHORITARIAN HEGEMONIC ;IF AFRICANS RETAINED THIER TRUE INDEPEDNENCE THEY WOUILD HAVE NO NEED FOR THESE NGOS OR EXPERTS ???? QUESTIONABLE WORDS EXPERTS ??? THEY FIRST OFF HAVE A TOTAL MISCONCEPT OF AFRICA ITS PEOPLE ITS ORIGINS ITS BEGININGS!!! THEY ARE COMPLETELY MISINOFRMED UNEDUCATED SO THIER PERSPECTIVES OF EXPERTISE ARE WARPED AND USUALLY WRONG!!!!!. THY SEE EUROEPAN LINES THEY BASE THINSG OFF THEIR EUROPEAN STANDARDS THAT DO NOT APPLY TO AFRICANS THEY GO TO AFRICA WITH THIS IDEEA THAT THEY ARE SUPERIRO TO AFRICANS. THEY DO NHOT GO TO AFRICA SEEING THAT THE PROBLEM IS ILLIETACY WHICH IS COMPLETELY OPPOSIT TO IGNORANCE AND EVEN IGNORANCE IS NOT ABLE TO KNOW THE DIFFERNCE. SHOULD ONE NOT HAVE THE SAME VALUES FOR LACK OF KNOWLDGE THEN THEY ARENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THIER ACTIONS, THIS IS WHY THE ICC IS SUCH A FRAUD. WEHN WE HAVE THE WESTERN FINANCIAL INSTITUIONS GOING TO BED WITH TERRORIST MURDERERS KIDNAPPERS ACTUALLY SANCTIONING THESE ', PREMEDIATTION IS THE MOST HEINOUS FORM OF CRIMINALITY THAT CAN BE EXERCISED!!!!!!!!. SO THE SCOLDING THE TAKING THE HIGH ROAD WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH IMMORALITY AND PREMEDIATION IN THE WEST IS PHENOMEANAM!!!!!. WE NEED TO ERADICATE CHILDERN ILLIETARCY A WAR ON ILLIETARCY IS NEEDED IN 'ALL AFRICA' ALL AFRICA' ALL AFRICA THIS NEEDS TO REGISTER IN THE MINDS OF THESE SO CALLED EXPERTS WITH THIER PHONY AGENDAS"". WHAT I SEE IS THESE SAME PEOPE RETURNING TO THE USA AND APPLYING THESE SAME SKILLS TO THE URBAN CENTERS WHERE THE PROBLEM IS JUST AS DISTINCT IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES THROUGH OUT THE PLANET. LET US GO TO LOS ANGELES USA THE GANG PROBLEM IS THE SAME WE SEE IN AFRICA HWERE BLACK A ND BROWN CHILDREN ARE THE BIGGEST USERS OF GUNH VIOLENCE AGAINST THEMSLEVES!!! GANGS ARE MOSTLY FILLED WITH CHILDREN THEY ARE THE BIGGETS USERS OF FIREARMS THEY ARE IMUNE TO VIOLENCE FROM A VERY EARLY AGE AD THIS IS A PROBLEM IN THE USA TODAY AND MOST WESTERN NATIONS AT LARGE. THE BIBLE HAS VERY PROFOUND THOUGHT "BEFORE YOU TAKE THE SPLINTER OUT MY EYES, LOOK IN YOUR EYES AND TAKE THE BIG PIECE OF LUMBER IN YOUR OWN EYES".."EQUITY PARITY EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT ,ENDING OF EXPLOITATION FROM THE WEST END OF INETFREANCE!! ALLOWING FOR AFRICANS TO EVOLVE NATURALLY"... THESE THINGS IN PRINCIPEL ARE POIGNANT PART OF DEVELOPMENT, THERE ARE NO SUPEIROR BEINGS ON THE PLANET EVERYMAN HAS THE SAME POTENTIAL TO REACH THE SAME ZENITH HAS EQUAL GENIUS". BEING FREE IS A BASIC PART OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INSERTING COERCING FORCING DEFINING THE DIRECTIONS THE FUTURE OF ANOTHER PEOPLE IS FACIST AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP THAT WILL ALWAYS BE REJECTED AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE REVOLT AND REBELLION. FORCING ONE TO BE A CARBON COPY OF YOURSELF IS IMPOSSIBLE EACH AND EVERYONE HAS THIER OWN DNA EVEN TWINS ARE' NT TURLY CARBON OF THEMSELVES!!! NATIONS PEOPLE HAVE DESTINED PRINCIPLED DESIRES THAT MAKE THEWM COLLABERATIVE IN OBTAINING HTIER (W)OWN DESTINIES. DO NOT SEEK TO BE A SCORNER A HOLLIER THAN THOU' BE A COMPASSIONTE HUMANITARIAN DEERVING OF REWARDS FOR YOUR EMPATHY AND WILLINGNESS TO TEACH STRONG INFRASTRCUTURES IN GOVERNMENTA CIVIL SERVICE DUTIES TO INSURE A STRONG INSTITUTION OF RELATING TO THE MARGINALISED. FOR SO LONG IN FRANCOFONE AFRICA WE HAVE SEEN THIS ERUPTION TO DISTANT THEMSELVES FROM THE HOLD THAT FRANCE HAS HAD OVER THESE ALLEGDLY FREE NATIONS, THEY ARE ALL STILL UNDER THE THUMBS OF THE FERNCH WHOSE ONLY PURPOSE IS TO RETAIN THIER HOLD OVER THE RESOURCES OF THE NATIONS. THE UNITED NATION IS A FOLLY AS IT CONTINUES TO REINFORCE THE COLONIAL HOLDS OVER THE NATIONS OF THESE AFRICAN NATIONS KEEPING THEM IN IGNORANCE ILLIERACY UNDERDEVELOPMENT UNPROGERSSIVENES BACKWARDSNESS. THIS HAS BEEN THE DUTIES OF THE UNITED NATIONS A COLLABERATOR OF COLONIALISM IN AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Central African Republic: Rebel Advance Worsens Humanitarian Crisis

      UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 4 January 2013

      A rebel takeover of several key towns in the Central African Republic (CAR) has placed additional strain on humanitarian conditions that were already precarious due to years of armed conflict. Access to populations in need and aid personnel on the ground are now significantly reduced.

    • Central African Republic: President Fires Defense Minister, Army Chief

      The Independent (Kampala), 3 January 2013

      Central African Republic President Francois Bozize has fired his son as defense minister and fired the army chief of staff, after a string of victories by rebel forces.

    • Central African Republic: Tension Engulfs CAR After Arbitrary Arrests

      The New Times (Kigali), 3 January 2013

      AT least 50 people, including two former members of the Central African Republic (CAR) Parliament, have been arrested and arbitrarily detained in Bangui where a tensed climate continues to persist, a human rights observer said on Tuesday.

    • Central African Republic: The Church Calls for Dialogue to Resolve Crisis

      Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi), 3 January 2013

      Citizens of Bangui, the capital city of the Central African Republic, have expressed concern over the Seleka rebel group advancing towards them.