{"id":56398,"date":"2015-10-20T11:26:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T09:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2015\/10\/un-humanitarian-chief-stephen-obrien-to-visit-central-african-republic-and-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2015-10-20T11:26:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T09:26:21","slug":"un-humanitarian-chief-stephen-obrien-to-visit-central-african-republic-and-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/un-humanitarian-chief-stephen-obrien-to-visit-central-african-republic-and-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"UN humanitarian chief Stephen O\u2019brien, to visit Central African Republic and Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n                                                    NEW YORK, United States of America, October 20, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>WHO: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O\u2019Brien<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WHAT: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Mission to the Central African Republic and Cameroon<\/p>\n<p>\nWHEN: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a020 &#8211; 23 October 2015<\/p>\n<p>\nWHERE: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bangui and field visit, Yaound\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>\nEmergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Stephen O\u2019Brien, will visit the Central African Republic from 20 to 23 October to take stock of the ongoing humanitarian crisis, deepened by the recent violence.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlmost 400,000 people have fled their homes in the Central African Republic (CAR) to seek refuge in spontaneous sites of displaced persons and with host families while more than 454,086 have sought refuge in neighbouring countries. Around 2.7 million people need immediate humanitarian assistance, while reports of terrible atrocities and attacks against civilians and aid workers continue.<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring his three-day visit, USG O\u2019Brien hopes to meet displaced people and local authorities in Bangui and in K\u00e9mo province. He is scheduled to also meet President Catherine Samba-Panza, other senior officials and representatives of the humanitarian community to discuss challenges in delivering assistance and ways of improving response to those affected by the crisis. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Emergency Relief Coordinator is then expected to travel to Cameroon on 23 October, to meet senior Government officials and the humanitarian community there to raise awareness of the humanitarian situation and discuss ways to better support those affected by the crises in neighbouring CAR and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, United States of America, October 20, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; WHO: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O\u2019Brien \u00a0 WHAT: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Mission to the Central African Republic and Cameroon WHEN: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a020 &#8211; 23 October 2015 WHERE: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-56398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}