Les pays ayant des liens d’amitié et de coopération avec la République du Congo ne cessent de lui témoigner leur solidarité suite à la tragédie du 4 mars dernier au régiment blindé à Mpila. C’est le cas de la Guinée équatoriale qui achemine actuellement à Brazzaville quelque 419 tonnes d’assistance humanitaire.
A l’invitation du CILSS s’est tenue le 02 mars 2012 à Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), sous la présidence de Dr Abdoulaye COMBARY, Ministre Délégué à l’Agriculture du Burkina Faso, la réunion des Ministres assurant la tutelle des structures en charge de la gestion des stocks nationaux de sécurité alimentaire au Sahel et en Afrique de l’Ouest.
L’objectif de la réunion était d’adopter le cadre de coopération des structures en charge de la gestion des stocks nationaux de sécurité alimentaire au Sahel et en Afrique de l’Ouest.
For many years, the countries of Central Africa have been suffering from the effects of epidemics and endemic diseases, as well as natural and man-made disasters. Conflicts have led to significant population displacements and put at further risk vulnerable groups that are already challenged to provide for themselves. Recently, the increasingly high cost of living has added a further burden to Central African populations.
POINTE NOIRE, 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts.
"Trafficking in children is real," said Gabon's social affairs director-general, Mélanie Mbadinga Matsanga.
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La RDC, le Cameroun, le Congo-Brazzaville, le Gabon et la Guinée-Equatoriale doivent lutter ensemble contre le trafic d’enfants en Afrique centrale. C’est l’une des recommandations formulées par les représentants de ces pays, réunis du mercredi 18 au vendredi 20 janvier à Pointe noire, pour discuter de la traite des enfants.
Les soixante participants à cette réunion ont reconnu la gravité du trafic d’enfants dans leurs pays respectifs.
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is to leverage the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations starting on Saturday to pep up the fight against HIV/AIDS on the continent.
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said in a statement obtained by PANA here Friday that the 16-nation tournament, to be hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea 21 Jan-12 Feb., ''provides an exceptional opportunity to mobilize and re-energize Africans against AIDS as millions tune in and turn up to support their teams''.
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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the fifteenth ordinary session of the Conference of Heads of State and Governments of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), read by Abou Moussa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, in N’Djamena, 15 January:
On November 23rd 2011 a special issue of Intervention, 'the International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict' will be published. This issue contains 220 pages and was financially supported by the UNHCR through an unrestricted grant. The theme of this issue is:
'The integration of mental health into existing health systems during and after complex emergencies'
8 September 2011 – With nearly 800 million people unable to read or write, the United Nations today marked International Literacy Day with a warning that illiteracy undermines efforts to eliminate a host of social ills such as poverty and sickness and threatens the very stability of nations.
The authorities in Equatorial Guinea must immediately end a draconian clampdown on freedom of expression taking place ahead of an African Union summit in the capital Malabo on 23 June, Amnesty International said today.
Political opponents as well as some 100 students have been arbitrarily arrested and detained in recent months, apparently as a pre-emptive measure to prevent any demonstrations during the summit. Many of them were reportedly ill-treated.
