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Source: UNHCR High Commissioner António Guterres pledges to help improve living conditions for refugees and internally displaced people in the Central African Republic.

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Internal armed conflict between government forces and various armed groups in northern areas of the Central African Republic (CAR) caused the internal displacement of over 200,000 people by 2007.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Bangui (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has just distributed food, seed, farming tools and other relief items to more than 6,700 people who have fled their homes in Vakaga prefecture, some 800 km northeast of Bangui.

BANGUI Wednesday, June 17, 2009 (IRIN) - Lasting security remains elusive in the north and northeast of Central African Republic, despite truces struck with armed groups and a national conference held in late 2008 in an effort to steer the country out of a devastating cycle of violence that has persisted more or less since independence in 1960.

PAOUA Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Cycles of political violence in the Central African Republic over the past decade have prompted tens of thousands of civilians to flee their villages or towns. Many still live in the bush, too scared to return home. Others, like Caroline Ngoena, who heads a pig-husbandry collective in the northwestern town of Paoua, are trying to rebuild their lives.

NAIROBI Friday, May 01, 2009 (IRIN) - Thousands of people have fled their homes in the northern Central African Republic (CAR) areas of Kabo and Moyen Sido following recent fighting between the army and a rebel group, medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said.

Source: IRIN Thousands of people have fled their homes in the northern Central African Republic (CAR) areas of Kabo and Moyen Sido following recent fighting between the army and a rebel group, medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said.

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