HDPT Central African Republic

  1. CAR government resigns amid wages crisis

    19-01-2008 14:33 door HDPT
    Prime Minister Elie Doté of the Central African Republic resigned, together with his government, on Friday 18 January 2008, following two weeks of strikes by unions and government workers over salary arrears. - Doté’s move came one day before the parliament was expected to vote on a motion of no-confidence against him. President François Bozizé accepted the resignation Friday evening and immediately issued a statement on national television. According to the President’s spokesperson Cyriaque Gonda, Bozizé welcomed the decision, stressing that Doté had decided to resign in the interest of ”keeping social peace, social cohesion and national unity.” The president …

  2. RI revisits Central African Republic due to ongoing violence

    04-12-2007 22:03 door HDPT
    - By Tino Kreutzer, Bangui The Washington-based NGO Refugees International (RI) is currently conducting a humanitarian assessment mission to the Central African Republic (CAR). The advocacy organization will focus on the causes of displacement and the humanitarian conditions in CAR’s battered northwest. The RI team has arrived in Bangui on November 27 and will conclude its mission on December 13, 2007. The RI team is set to follow up its previous assessments in the Central African Republic that took place in November 2006 and March 2007, respectively. The mission’s objective is to assess the current security conditions and its impact on humanitarian access, as well a…

  3. Poverty, aid and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa and CAR

    22-11-2007 08:48 door HDPT
    - Throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa, incomes have risen considerably since the 1980s, albeit from a very low level. Calls for increased long-term development aid are now more frequent than ever. In the Central African Republic, however, these trends have moved in the opposite direction. Incomes have hardly risen in more than 20 years, and development aid has fallen by dramatically in real terms since 1985. While poor governance is often cited as a reason for this development, CAR does not score any worse on governance indicators than most other African countries. Facts on poverty, aid and governance in brief: + Only two countries have a higher share of people living on le…

  4. CAR: Temporary schools provide normalcy

    21-11-2007 14:15 door AfricaNews editor
    - Three months ago, Agnès along with many other children and their families, were forced to flee their homes in search of safety in the bush.“Mama woke me up early, we hurriedly dressed and left the house. I was very scared, I didn’t understand what was happening.” Getting up so early was unusual for Agnès. Because of the ongoing conflict in the country’s northeast, she had not been able to attend school for many months. “We left the house in silence, it was still dark” she recalls. As they walked down the street, the family were joined by the other villagers.Clutching her younger brother’s hand, Agnès describes how she began the…

  5. Detailed update on UN/EU peacekeeping mission

    21-11-2007 14:12 door HDPT
    - The UN/EU peacekeeping mission to Chad and the Central African Republic is rapidly taking shape. The European Union is determined to dispatch 4,300 troops from 20 countries within the next weeks. They will work alongside 350 United Nations police and military personnel who will work to protect the fragile triangle between CAR, Chad and the war-torn Darfur region in Sudan. This article is a complete round-up on the current situation of this crucial mission to stabilize the region. The mission comes as a response to the dire situation of an estimated 230,000 refugees from Darfur who continue to flee into bordering eastern Chad and north-eastern Central African Republic (CAR). Armed Sudane…