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Central African Republic: UN Calls On Donors to Close Massive Funding Gap
UN News, 31 January 2014
Unless additional funding is secured for the Central African Republic (CAR), nearly two million desperate people will be forced to go without food and basic necessities, the United… Read more »
UN Calls for More Funding for CAR
The UN has warned that nearly two million people will be forced to go without food and basic necessities unless additional funding is secured.
An aid worker in discussion with a patient in the trauma unit of Bangui's community hospital.
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Central African Republic: EU Force Gets Green Light for Central African Republic
IWPR, 1 February 2014
UN Security Council authorises extra troops to address concerns that peacekeeping numbers are too low. Read more »
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Central African Republic: EU to Announce New Support for Security and Elections in the Central African Republic
EU External Action, 31 January 2014
EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, has announced that the European Commission stands ready to give new support in the range of €25 million to the African… Read more »
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Central African Republic: Donors Pledge Funds
DW, 1 February 2014
At a donor's summit led by the African Union, 60 nations have come together to raise money for crisis-stricken Central African Republic. An estimated one million people have been… Read more »
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Central African Republic: World Comes Together to Fund Peacekeeping Mission
VOA, 1 February 2014
The African Union says international donors have pledged $314 million to fund an African peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic. The announcement came at the end of a… Read more »
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Central African Republic: Insecurity Hampering Aid
SAnews.gov.za, 31 January 2014
Unless the security situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) improves, humanitarian agencies will not have sufficient access to people in the provinces outside the capital… Read more »
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Africa: South Sudan, CAR Conflicts to Dominate AU Summit
VOA, 29 January 2014
The crises in South Sudan and the Central African Republic are expected to be high on the agenda at the African Union summit that begins Thursday in Addis Ababa. The United States… Read more »
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Central African Republic: UN Mandate in CAR Extended
SAnews.gov.za, 29 January 2014
Concerned by widespread human rights violations and the "increasing cycle of violence and retaliation" in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Security Council has extended the… Read more »
InFocus
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As foreign dignitaries head to Bangui for the inauguration of the new transitional leader, Catherine Samba-Panza, a UN expert has warned that the "unprecedented" violence puts the ... Read more »
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As the humanitarian crisis deepens and the new government squares up to massive challenges after nearly a year of political unrest and inter-religious violence, the call for more ... Read more »
