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01/29/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/29/2021 03:58 Conditions dire as CAR displacement tops 200,000 29 January 2021 A refugee mother from Central African Republic sits with her children beside a makeshift shelter in Ndu village, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNHCR/Fabien Faivre As insecurity in the Central African Republic (CAR) has displaced more than 200,000 people within the country and in neighbouring states in less than two months, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agenc...

Content provided by Last updated: 29/01 - 13:50 As insecurity in the Central African Republic (CAR) has displaced more than 200,000 people within the country and in neighbouring states in less than two months, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that tens of thousands are facing dire conditions. Refugee arrivals into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reached 92,000 according to local authorities and some 13,2...

Conditions dire as CAR displacement tops 200,000 Format A refugee mother from Central African Republic sits with her children beside a makeshift shelter in Ndu village, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © UNHCR/Fabien Faivre This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at todays press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. As insecurity in the Central African Republic (CAR) has displaced more than 200,000 peo...

Ongwen was known as one of the more ruthless commanders of the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). He is from northern Uganda. His family indicates that he was born in 1980 and that the rebel group abducted him on his way to school in 1990, when he was about 10. Senior LRA leaders gave him military training, and he eventually became an LRA commander. After LRA forces left northern Uganda in 2005 and 2006, troops under Ongwen’s command repeatedly terrorized communities in Congo’s...

English Situation Report on Central African Republic and 4 other countries about Food and Nutrition, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 22 Jan 2021 by UNHCR

CrisisInSight Weekly Picks, 13 January 2021 Format DRC Some 24,000 people have arrived in Bas Uele and Nord Ubangi provinces, fleeing insecurity associated with the 27 December general election in Central African Republic. 15,000 are in Ndu (Bas Uele), a village that normally has a population of 3,500. New arrivals are sheltering with host families or in makeshift tents along the Ubangi River. WASH and shelter needs are reported; health assistance is also needed as some host villages lack healt...

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned that violence and insecurity surrounding the 27 December general election in the Central African Republic (CAR)

Content provided by Last updated: 08/01 - 15:10 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned that violence and insecurity surrounding the 27 December general election in the Central African Republic (CAR) has forced over 30,000 people to flee into neighboring Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the Republic of Congo. Tens of thousands more have been displaced inside the country. Some 24,196 crossed the Uba...

UNHCR concerned about thousands of Central Africans fleeing election violence Format Families arrive in Ndu village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after fleeing Bangassou town in the Central African Republic. © UNHCR/Ghislaine Nentobo This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at todays press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned that violence and insecurity ...