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The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, arrived in Bangui this week and met with interim President Catherine Samba-Panza as well as national stakeholders and international diplomatic representations. She also travelled to Bossangoa and carried a message saying that those who had committed such crimes would not go unpunished.
Ms. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, was in the Central African Republic this week to discuss the dire human rights situation in the country. She met with the country’s interim President and Prime Minister, as well as representatives of the African Union, the European Union and the Economic Community of Central African States. While in Bangui, Pillay also met with officials of UN agencies and visited sites of displacement.
The World Food Programme’s (WFP) Executive Director, Ms. Ertharin Cousin, visited IDP sites in Bangui and Bossangoa during a visit to the Central African Republic this week. She stated that there was alarming food insecurity and malnutrition in the country amid a deadly combination of violence and insufficient funding for the humanitarian response. She took part in a joint seeds and food distribution programme with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).