Friday, March 14, 2008

News!

  • Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders suspended mobile clinic activities in the Northeastern Province of the Central African Republic (CAR) after a woman was shot in one of its ambulances.
  • Additionally, the Ugandan-based Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) abducted more than 80 residents from a CAR border town. For background on the crisis in CAR, visit the Genocide Intervention Network. For background on the LRA, visit the Enough Project.
  • The humanitarian situation in eastern Chad is becoming increasingly dire, as refugees from Darfur continue to flow into the region, joining some 240,000 refugees in 12 camps. Additionally, numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) are rapidly increasing as a result of fighting between the Chadian government and rebel groups.

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