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Displaced children and adults shelter outside a barbed-wire fence, in a camp set up behind Mpoko International Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR). Photo: UNICEF/Pierre Terdjman

CENTRAL AFRICA STILL BURDENED BY MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRISIS, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

The Central Africa region is still facing many challenges, including an economic crisis aggravated by the drop in oil prices, rising youth unemployment, and terrorist activities, as well as the cross-border impact of crises in Central African Republic (CAR) and Burundi, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the sub-region warned today. Read more

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