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4 January 2012 - 4:29pmWhen Nestor Gonkapieu heard gunshots ring out in his village in December 2010, he didn’t wait to see who was shooting before running for cover. “In 2002, the same sound preceded a massacre here,” he remembers. Nestor’s daughter, Cyprienne, was playing outside the village... -
6 December 2011 - 2:22pmNdolamb Ngokwey has been the Humanitarian Coordinator in Côte d’Ivoire since July 2010 and has served with the United Nations since 1986 - most recently as Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Mozambique. He also held many senior posts in UNICEF, including Deputy Regional... -
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... -
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... -
25 October 2011 - 3:44pmOn the night of 28 June, a heavy downpour almost swallowed Imbelbellou – a village of 7000 inhabitants in a precarious valley in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Maradi is Niger’s most populous region, and the country’s breadbasket, but is prone to natural disasters and vulnerable to...
