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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES Duty Station: Ouaka, Nana Mambere, Ouham Pende, Ouham and Bamingui Bangoran prefectures Duration: 2 Months Tentative start date: 1 September 2022 Delivery date: 30 October CONTEXT: Background (national context) Community Violence Reduction in Greater Bambari Area (implemented from September 2017 to August 2020) The Central African Republic (CAR) is…

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sonará estúpido... pero me siento muy bendecida por tus hamsters! uwu/*º.*-º.

When you see him in your dashboard it’s because he’s blessing you … or maybe that’s a little lie. Hehe.

Vaya, muchas gracias, Kifu-jin. ¡Tus palabras me animan mucho! Es agradable saber que estas cositas peludas puedan hacerte un bien.

Por favor, acepta este pequeño regalo de mi parte

DÉPÊCHE/Ouham-Pendé : Bozoum, les “3R” toujours en chasse des bergers peuhls, au moins 7 morts Le triangle BOZOUM - BOUAR - BAORO,  redevenu de nouveau zone à risque. Comme nous l'annoncions le 10 dernier, des miliciens du groupe armé "3R" font la chasse à des bergers peuhls qui avaient réussi à fuir leur contrôle pour les exploiter.

Armed groups in CAR occupying schools, preventing children from getting an education

Armed groups in CAR occupying schools, preventing children from getting an education

Armed groups in the Central African Republic have occupied, looted, and damaged school buildings, preventing children from getting an education, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

The 39-page report, “No Class: When Armed Groups Use Schools in the Central African Republic,” documents how armed groups, and even soldiers from the United Nations peacekeeping mission, known as…

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Central African Republic Special Court Announces First Trial

Central African Republic Special Court Announces First Trial

Click to expand Image Judges from the Central African Republic’s Special Criminal Court (SCC) hear arguments on December 17, 2021 on whether to send the case against Issa Sallet Adoum, Ousman Yaouba and Tahir Mahamat to trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Ouham Pendé province in May 2019. © 2021 Inès Laure N’Gopot On December 17, the Central African Republic’s…

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Aum

A handful of stars persisted through the unyielding black. I counted four-hundred sirens of false hope; entertaining a trick borne from the immense scales that the universe dealt in: they were nothing more than trains of light screeching away from a station that had long since been obliterated under its own weight. Even so, the chant had not ceased.

This disconnection reclined lazily; fate’s concubine reading her master’s proclamation.

“Come here, Sake” The baritone-hound was snoozing; and the pricking up of his ears heralded his waking, followed by his head turning across his sleek body to stare: “I don’t wanna.”

I’d have to wait to pet my companion. The purr of reality held out; one star yet burned in the heavens, and I intended to reach it before it collapsed in on itself. A quick survey of the sector yielded speedy result; a neutron star placed mysteriously within reach of the last of my fuel. It seemed the All Mother wanted an audience for Her final diminuendo, and while I’d hardly been a model child of the cosmos; she once again saw fit to bestow me with sumptuous riches.

With course set, I sat down next to Sake; the old dog placing his head on my lap soon thereafter. Tapping into the thrum of the universe together; we sought to feel the last of the titan-song depart this plane. The Titans called it mah wakti (soul-throating), and the Karathi (known to many as the whispering travellers) called it Auham Ouham; from which the great thinkers of Earth divined the term Aum; sound of the universe. (Sake was perchance, the greatest master of this practice)

Many humans have called it mediation; but this description failed in its precision. To listen to the thrum was to be part of it, and knowing this, it was no coincidence to me that thoughts of my Grand Harmony, and the Titan who helped in its construction played before my mind’s eye.

Long have I adored the song of the Titans; the force that filled our cosmic-balloon. I took a certain fancy when I greeted my billionth birthday; to craft a planet that would mirror the ballad that bound galaxies like fine silk binds precious jewels.

I chose a planet with low gravity, where trees would grow tall into the stratosphere, each a violin, viola, cello or bass behemoth. Wind caught in their boughs and moved them to play the strings of their neighbour. Flowers sang operas of soprano and tenor; while falling leaves fluted tragedy of those star-crossed.

A moon moved into orbit by favour of the Titan Andromeda; turned oceans from pallid soups to a planetary percussion section.

We would never be enough for each other; I was no more than a wrapped candy of sweet time to her, and I knew her as a power to be enjoyed, never pursued or tamed.

Our project became the place we would live out our heretical dream; of human and Titan immorality.

In our moments alone, her words would come to my mind; not my ears, a rumbling affection that tugged my consciousness away from my mind.

In this place away from the corporeal I could taste the most exquisite cuisines; smell the forests of planets unknown; her form pressed against mine like finest velvet; yet my eyes failed to encapsulate her splendour. Crescendo after another weaved through the song crafted betwixt our unity.

We walked the rainforests of our planet; extradimensional, while singing our own part of the Grand Harmony, teaching the native fauna to find their sonata, soliloquy, stanza.

As millennia passed, Andromeda visited less frequently, her stays shortened:

This Harmony was ending; she was called to other moments. Finally, the parent star to my symphony went supernova; tearing my work apart by the atom; redistributing it into floral clouds of new verse.

I watched it; tears rolling down my face. I did not choke on them, they did not heave my body into hysteria; they came flowing both of joy and of grief. I had destroyed much to create this world perfect to my own eyes, and in spite of all my achievements, the majesty of the universe spoke louder than I dared imagine.

The only treasure I had left from my music box now sat with his head on my lap, snoring loudly. I worked for almost a millennium to perfect this dog, and now all he does is snore on me. The guttural blasphemy had brought me back to see that we had reached our destination; the orbit of that fading god, Sake once again proved his prowess as a companion.

Once upon a time, this all-consuming explosion that spewed energy throughout the cosmos would have been as a door to me; a place to cross over to the Titan-realm, where form and energy know no expression. But the plane of creation is present only through a window now, and any timid protestations that I could muster would be akin to a mote of dust wishing to smash through the stained glass of a cathedral. We lingered for days; experiencing the last moments of light, hanging on every note; the tragedy was inevitable, still we clung to hope that it was not so.

At the last, Andromeda cast a shadow; like a tree branch passing in front of that stained glass. She passed through the veil; all stuck between the second and third dimension.

“You can come with me. You need only choose it.”

A Titans concept of choice differs considerably from our own; for they exist in all eventualities, and we only in one.

The sun’s barrage withdrew, the last elements of its fusion reaction consumed; splotches of black that had been swimming about its ocean of plasma grew bigger. Andromedas hand stayed outstretched, right until the connection between realms was severed. The vibration of the universe went quiet all at once, never before had I been in such quiet. It was the silence of all worlds. No more glorious breath to behold, nor fast pumping of the heart; all was quiet for one pure instant.

The aum of the universe had gone; and with it the bonds that held myself and everything around.

Goddess as I might once have called myself, I am now the girl sitting by the fireplace with my dog, listening to the last note of existence.

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05 March 2018: In Paoua town, Ouham-Pendé prefecture, and across the wider Central African Republic, fighting among…

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Cameroon Struggles to Secure Neighbors, Its Own Territory

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The recent violent events in parts of the #CentralAfricanRepublic demonstrate that despite the important progress achieved this past year under President Touadéra’s tenure and the positive momentum generated by the peaceful conclusion of the transition last year, many challenges remain.

In response and in line with its mandate, the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) continues to uphold a robust posture to protect the civilian population. MINUSCA also uses its good offices to engage all relevant stakeholders to resolve these issues in a peaceful manner and in support of the President-led dialogue framework.

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Militiamen Killed a UN Peacekeeper in Central African Republic

07/14/2020 Central African Republic (International Christian Concern) – On Monday, July 13th, the armed militiamen killed a Rwandan United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeper, injuring two others in the northwest part of the Central African Republic. The U.N. stated that “the attack in the Nana-Mambéré prefecture, was allegedly carried out by the Return, Reclamation, and Rehabilitation (3R) armed group.”

The Central African Republic has been rocked by violence since 2013 when mainly Muslim Séléka rebels ousted then-President Francois Bozizé, prompting reprisals from mostly Christian militias. The violence has led to hundreds of deaths and almost 700,000 internally displaced people (IDPs). It has also pushed more than 500,000 people to seek refuge in neighboring countries such as Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Chad. A year later, in 2014, the U.N. deployed peacekeepers.

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Multiple attacks attributed to 3R rebels have increased in the northwest of the country since the 3R’s leader announced their withdrawal from the 2019 peace agreement. The attacks have seen an increase in tensions across Nana-Mambéré and Ouham-Pende in anticipation of further rebel activity, with hundreds of people reported to have fled remote communities in some areas.

Much of the tension is over religious identity between Muslim Séléka fighters and Christian anti-balaka. Ongoing violence between Muslim-majority ex-Séléka militias and Christian-majority anti-balaka militias. It has resulted in thousands of people dead, 2.4 million in need of humanitarian assistance, and more than 542,000 refugees and 688,000 IDPs as of the end of 2017.

  For interviews, please contact Olivia Miller, Communications Coordinator: [email protected].

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