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The international community has committed to a new sustainable development agenda built on the principles of equity and human rights. A central objective of the Sustainable Development Goals is to leave no one behind. Despite…

The Central African Republic’s (CAR) considerable progress over the past two years risks being reversed unless national authorities demonstrated commitment to inclusive and transparent governance, and to addressing the root…

Over the past few weeks there has been a series of violent incidents in several parts of the Central African Republic (CAR) leading to unnecessary loss of lives, many wounded people and desolation. The Special Representative…

Warning that attacks against United Nations peacekeepers may constitute war crimes, the Security Council has strongly condemned the killing of a ‘blue helmet’ serving with the United Nations operation in the Central African…

MINUSCA has started on Tuesday, 17 May, a series of meetings with youth, women, religious leaders and traditional chiefs in Bangui to inform them about measures implemented by the mission to prevent and combat sexual…

Briefing the General Assembly on the challenges being faced and progress being made to end the exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeepers, senior UN officials today indicated that immediate concerns have been…

More than three years of violence have dismantled the already very fragile health structures in the Central African Republic (CAR), bringing the government service delivery capacity to a complete stop, and leaving thousands…

The top United Nations official in the Central African Republic (CAR) met this week with the new National Assembly, which took office after a series of successful elections supported by UN peacekeepers in the country. Parfait…

Rarely have parliamentary sessions attracted so many people. Besides the MPs and their supporters, ordinary citizens attended this crucial moment in the country’s democratic life. On May 3, within the grounds of the National…

Thanks to a donation from MINUSCA approximately 1,500 young people, girls and boys, of Bossangoa have from now on access to computers in the city’s multimedia centre. The new computers will allow them to access training and…

They have decided to turn the page in CAR by giving up violence. They have disarmed and now want to return to civilian life. Under the implementation of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) process, some 3…

In Lakouanga, Bangui, life has returned to normal and everyone goes about his every day activities. Once again the streets are alive, the children play outside and traders have reopened their shops and stalls. Yet in the…