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Centrafrique : DOSSIER/Demandes en cascade de comptes au gouvernement et à la MINUSCA

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[su_heading style=”flat-blue” size=”20″]L’ampleur du carnage à ALINDAO (une centaine de morts), et ailleurs, ne cesse de créer des remous[/su_heading]

Dossier élaboré par Justin BELONGO & Firmine YABADA

BANGUI [LNC] – Les politiciens de l’opposition ont emboîté avant hier le pas aux mouvements des associations des ressortissants des zones récemment affectées par les tueries…

BATANGAFO : Faced with ongoing insecurity, 4 main NGOs pull out for a time

LingYun Xu Wan BATANGAFO (LNC) –They are four, with among, DRC & OXFAM, telling suspend their non-essential activities in the city, as becoming, according to them, a no-go-zone filled with repeated attacks on civilians and humanitarian actors by armed groups in neighbourhoods since beginning of November. They think that MINUSCA missed its role in safeguarding the population and the humanitarians,…

BREAKING/BATANGAFO: Séléka taking over in great numbers!

Growing numbers of Seleka militiamen operating in this area, coming from Kaga-Bandoro and Bria, where yet recently, leaders at a special meeting, talked of encampment of the troops. At present, they are roaming, but not be held to be conflictual. According to an observer moving within Zone, they would plan in the city a new gathering for an attack. Because, Anti-Balaka militiamen are also on…

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The top UN relief official in the Central African Republic (CAR) has condemned repeated and deadly attacks that took place last week on sites for internally displaced people (IDPs) in the towns of Batangafo and Bambari.

Humanitarian Coordinator in the Central African Republic Aurélien Agbénonci (2nd left), visits an IDP camp in Kaga Bandoro.

The sudden eruption of inter communal violence in Batangafo, Ouham Province last Tuesday left at least 10 people killed and several injured. Over 730 shelters were burned in the IDP site hosting over 30,000 people, which is currently the largest site in the country. Meanwhile in Bambari, Ouaka Province, the renewed violence left three people killed, more than 30 injured and newly displaced people.

“I condemn all attacks causing deaths and injuries among the civilian population, and remind all parties involved that the indiscriminate attack against civilians is a war crime,” said Aurélien Agbénonci, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country, in a press release.

“The parties involved in the clashes must respect the inalienable rights of men, women and children to life. Civilians should not be targeted,” he added.

The fresh clashes in Batangafo reportedly forced thousands of people to flee towards the international non-governmental organizations, the compound of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in CAR (MINUSCA) as well as some public buildings.

According to the UN, the spiral of violence is also causing additional humanitarian needs in the country, and the increasing insecurity is rendering the work of humanitarian actors even more challenging.

Mr. Agbénonci stressed that despite the rising challenges, humanitarian workers are committed to stay and deliver live-saving assistance, including the provision of medical care, water and sanitation, and the distribution of non-food and food items.

“It is urgent that international laws and conventions are respected and that all parties to the conflict take immediate action and responsibility to respect the humanitarian space and secure the rights of the civilian population of the Central African Republic, who are among the most vulnerable people in the world. We need to end all this suffering that is unacceptable,” he stated.

Until the recent violence, the UN estimates CAR had an internally displaced population estimated at 399,000 people, while almost 460,000 had fled to neighboring countries.

This article is provided by the UN News Centre.

Centrafrique: France admits several ‘Sangaris’ injured in Batangafo

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BATANGAFO (LNC) — Fighting between former rebels, of Seleka and the French Forces of Sangaris, first occurred on Monday morning in Batangafo had temporarily took a break the following afternoon, time for attempts ended unsuccessfully. [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the early evening of Tuesday, the fighting again erupted. As we exclusively indicated it yesterday, there was fewer French casualties, the…

Centrafrique : Batangafo, Sangaris – Seleka, negotiations broke down and new outburst

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BATANGAFO (LNC) — A ‘dead city’ in the true sense of the term on this Wednesday in Batangafo. Inhabitants went into hiding, and the streets are deserted. At least 10,000 local residents fled fighting to seek refuge at the hospital, at the mayor’s residence, in the city hall, in the parish and in the bush.

Negotiations held on yesterday afternoon in the sub-prefecture between the warring…