Abidjan, 26 oct (AIP) – Le Mouvement ivoirien des droits humains (MIDH) a mené, d’août à octobre, une campagne sur la reconduction de la loi spéciale n°2013-653 du 13 septembre 2013 portant dispositions particulières en matière d’acquisition de la nationalité ivoirienne par déclaration dont elle a p...

N‘Djamena (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Koutu Saimon’s son, Wheener, was born almost four months premature and “as small as a mouse”, friends and relatives in Chad turned to the new mother and, with sidelong glances and in hushed voices, whispered to her to get rid of the baby. Koutu Saimon...

Le 24 octobre déclarée journée des Nations Unies est célébrée en Côte d’Ivoire par les agences du système onusien qui y sont représentées. Mardi 24 octobre 2017, la commémoration de la signature de la charte de l’ONU a donné lieu à un déjeuner de presse qui s’est tenu à Abidjan-Cocody les 2 Plateaux...

The United Nations Assistant High Commissioner (Protection), Mr. Volker Türk, concluded on Wednesday a two-day visit to Myanmar, during which he called for unrestricted humanitarian access for communities in need, and for the voluntary return of refugees in safety and dignity.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — The United Nations reports conditions in Central African Republic have continued to deteriorate since a serious outbreak of inter-communal violence in mid-May between the Muslim Seleka and largely Christian anti-Balaka armed groups. Fighting in some parts of Central Africa...

Bangui/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is shocked and saddened by the killing of one of its staff in the Central African Republic. Youssouf Atteipe, an ICRC driver, died on Saturday while taking part in a convoy delivering much-needed aid to victims of the armed c...

DOSSEYE, Chad (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Leila Ousmane and her 10-year-old daughter walk in disbelief atop the crumbling bricks that, until a few days earlier, formed the walls of their family home. Refugees from the Central African Republic carrying belongings from flooded homes in the Dosse...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Four patients have died and thousands are stranded without healthcare in an embattled Central African Republic town, after an attack forced the last charity working there to pull out. https://goo.gl/u1UqHK

Des casques bleus égyptiens sont tombés dans une embuscade tendue par des groupes d'autodéfense dans la localité centrafricaine de Gambo (sud-est), faisant un mort et trois blessés, selon un communiqué de presse publié dimanche par la mission onusienne en Centrafrique MINUSCA. Dans ce communiqué, la...

Libya remains one of the most complex mixed migration situations in the world, with refugees traveling alongside migrants through perilous routes, surviving dangerous desert crossings and abuses that include sexual violence, torture, detention in inhumane conditions and abductions for ransom.