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26 December 2013 – The United Nations has voiced “extreme concern” that recent violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) will cause a sharp increase in children suffering severe malnutrition, putting an already vulnerable population at further risk. Before violence erupted earlier this month in…

27 December 2013 – Amid reports of bodies found on the streets of the Central African Republic (CAR) capital of Bangui, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is again appealing for an end to the inter-communal violence between Christians and Muslims, calling the continued fighting “appalling.” In a…

27 December 2013 – The Secretary-General and French President François Hollande spoke about the grave situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) noting that this is a complex emergency affecting the whole population, in particular women and children from all communities. The Secretary-General…

27 December 2013 – Humanitarian actors in the Central African Republic (CAR) urgently need US$152 million to help save lives and ensure the protection of 1.2 million people in the country during the next three months. Following the inter-communal violence in December, an estimated 370,000 people…

30 December 2013 – Attacks against children in the Central African Republic (CAR) have sunk to a “vicious new low,” the United Nations children’s agency warned today, saying that at least two children have been beheaded, and one of them mutilated, in the violence that has gripped the capital since…

31 December 2013 – United Nations agencies today warned of possible famine and severe malnutrition in the Central African Republic (CAR), calling on donors to provide urgent funding to mitigate the crisis in the impoverished country where a year of conflict has already killed thousands of people and…

3 January 2014 – The humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic remains dire with insecurity hampering the delivery of aid to the more than 935,000 people displaced by the violence, the United Nations refugee agency today said. “People are hiding in the bush, fearing fresh attacks,”…

6 January 2014 – With nearly 1 million civilians driven from their homes by conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) and 2.2 million - about half the population - in need of humanitarian aid, lack of security, funding and access is hampering efforts by the United Nations and its partners to…

6 January 2014 – The worsening strife in the Central African Republic (CAR) with its Muslim-Christian overtones risks escalating into sustained violence along religious lines and spilling beyond the country’s borders, further destabilizing the whole region, the United Nations top political officer…

7 January 2014 – The United Nations today resumed food aid for some 100,000 displaced people in Bangui, capital of the strife-torn Central African Republic (CAR), for the first time in nearly three weeks since deliveries were suspended when machete-wielding men stormed the distribution site and food…

8 January 2014 – A United Nations human rights expert today called for urgent protection and increased assistance to the growing number of persons displaced by violence in the Central African Republic. “The number of displaced persons has increased dramatically over the past few weeks, and immediate…

9 January 2014 – Secretary-General's message to the Extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) [Delivered by Mr. Babacar Gaye, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office for the Central African…