Central African Republic

Ten Egyptian blue helmets were injured this week in Bangui when President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's guards fired on their bus; the UN called the attack "deliberate and unspeakable"

The issue of combating violence against women and defending women human rights defenders has been the focus of women parliamentarians' activities for the past three months and they have now presented the results of the project

Livestock traders, grouped in seven associations, denounce the assaults, killings, extortion, abusive detention and other ill-treatment to which they have been subjected in recent times in the region of Damara, Bangui and the village of Bouboui

The Special Commission of Inquiry, set up following numerous documented UN reports, has published a counter-report in which it denounces that many incidents are unproven and only 8 can be attributed to national forces

UN-Women with the National Election Authority launched a program to support women candidates in the 2022 municipal elections, in the context of the 2030 Gender Equality Act

The Roti Centrafrique group led by Magloire Kolisso Débalé has signed a partnership agreement with the ecological bank Global Green Fund for the construction of 40.000 modern social housing units in Mboko

Film submissions for the 2021 Official Selection of the Second Edition of the "Bangui fait son cinéma" festival, scheduled from November 20 to 28, closed today

300 Rwandan peacekeepers have been welcomed in Bangui: this deployment of additional troops concretises the implementation of UNSC Resolution 2566 on strengthening MINUSCA's capacity

MUNISCA confirmed finding 13 dead civilians 300 km North of Bangui; neither circumstances nor authors have been identified, but national authorities are pointing fingers at the CPC rebel coalition

Thanks to a donation from the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration section of MINUSCA, the localities of Bawi and Koundé received several health facilities for easier access to basic health services

Harvesting, crucial, is being made difficult by the ongoing conflict that is causing a wave of population displacement - the UN local coordinator has expressed specific concern

Minister Pascal Bida Koyagbele laid the foundation stone for the first of the planned 5,000 water towers to be built across the country