John Ging, OCHA’s Operations Director, warned that the Central African Republic (CAR) faces one of the world’s worst funding shortfalls despite the country’s deteriorating humanitarian crisis.
Mr. Ging, who visited CAR from 29 February to 2 March, witnessed first hand the appalling humanitarian...
Widescale violence by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has forced more than 21,000 people to flee their homes in the Central African Republic (CAR), a new OCHA map reveals.
Across Central Africa, including South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), CAR and Uganda, as many as 440,000 people are currently...
Working as Humanitarian Coordinator in Bangui since October 2009, Bo Schack has seen new efforts to improve health, education and agriculture in the Central African Republic, after years of chronic neglect.
Infant and maternal mortality rates remain amongst the highest in the world. But in recent years there has been a...
Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) today released a report showing that children in the Central African Republic (CAR) are being abducted, recruited into armed groups and denied access to humanitarian assistance.
The report, entitled An Uncertain...
6 March 2012 - 3:27amJohn Ging, OCHA’s Operations Director, warned that the Central African Republic (CAR) faces one of the world’s worst funding shortfalls despite the country’s deteriorating humanitarian crisis. Mr. Ging, who visited CAR from 29 February to 2 March, witnessed first hand the appalling humanitarian...
22 November 2011 - 3:57pmWidescale violence by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has forced more than 21,000 people to flee their homes in the Central African Republic (CAR), a new OCHA map reveals. Across Central Africa, including South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), CAR and Uganda, as many as 440,000 people are currently...
31 October 2011 - 1:14pmWorking as Humanitarian Coordinator in Bangui since October 2009, Bo Schack has seen new efforts to improve health, education and agriculture in the Central African Republic, after years of chronic neglect. Infant and maternal mortality rates remain amongst the highest in the world. But in recent years there has been a...
4 May 2011 - 4:49pmWatchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) today released a report showing that children in the Central African Republic (CAR) are being abducted, recruited into armed groups and denied access to humanitarian assistance. The report, entitled An Uncertain...