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This year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities focuses on the theme, “sustainable development: the promise of technology”.Technology has changed the world, bringing knowledge within reach and expanding a range of…

A United Nations humanitarian mission has visited a town in the Central African Republic (CAR) amid an outburst of violence that left at least 14 people injured and three killed, the Organization’s humanitarian relief office…

We live in an era of rising and violent extremism, radicalism and widening conflicts that are characterized by a fundamental disregard for human life. There are more people displaced by fighting today than at any period since…

The International Contact Group on the Central African Republic (ICG-RCA) held its 6th meeting in Bangui, on 11 November 2014, under the co-chairmanship of Mr. Basile Ikouebe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of…

The United Nations is needed more than ever at this time of multiple crises. Poverty, disease, terrorism, discrimination and climate change are exacting a heavy toll. Millions of people continue to suffer deplorable…

10 October 2014 – Strongly condemning the recent deadly ambush of a convoy of United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Security Council today deplored all attacks and provocations by armed groups…

Bangui, 09 October 2014: The Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) and Head of Mission, Lt-General (rtd) Babacar Gaye, strongly condemned the ambush this evening against MINUSCA peacekeepers in the outskirts…

26 September 2014 – Due to the rainy season in the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP) has announced that it is facing a double challenge of insecurity and logistical constraints.…

Thank you for joining forces to focus on the situation in the Central African Republic. I extend a special welcome to the Head of State of the Transition, Ms. Catherine Samba-Panza. I thank Mediator of the CAR crisis --…

New York, 24 September 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has learned with “profound sadness” of the passing today of Margaret Vogt, who served as his Special Representative in the Central African Republic (CAR) from 2011…

New York, 15 September 2014 - The members of the Security Council welcomed the seamless transition of authority from the African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic (MISCA) to the United Nations…

New York 19 August 2014 – With a month left to the before full deployment of the United Nations mission in the Central African Republic (CAR), the UN envoy for that country today said that while there have been pockets of…