Reuters AlertNet Full site
Homepage | Newsdesk | NGO Latest | Crisis briefings | Country profiles | MediaWatch | Jobs | Alerting | Login

NEWSDESK

Mia Farrow urges UN action on Central African Rep.
27 Feb 2007 23:08:06 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Central African Republic troubles

•  Sudan conflicts

By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Actress Mia Farrow urged the United Nations on Tuesday to send peacekeepers to Central African Republic and save it from becoming a failed state by stemming a flow of violence from neighboring Sudan and Chad.

The award-winning film star visited the impoverished nation earlier this month as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. children's fund, UNICEF, and described its people as terrified, traumatized and "utterly neglected" by the most of the world.

"We will see hundreds of thousands of deaths in Central African Republic after the rainy season unless there's help coming," Farrow told a news conference. "I don't see how this extremely fragile and completely abandoned population can possibly survive."

"It's been called the forgotten crisis, but that implies that it was once remembered. I don't know that it has been in the consciousness of the international community," she said.

The Security Council considered on Tuesday a report from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommending a peacekeeping force of nearly 11,000 for Chad and a "security presence" of about 500 personnel in the Central African Republic.

Farrow also wants peacekeepers in Chad, which has become caught up in violence spreading from Sudan's Darfur region.

She has long campaigned for a U.N. force to be sent to Darfur, where fighting between rebels and the Sudanese government began in 2003 and has now fueled rebellions in Central African Republic and Chad.

The Security Council has planned a Darfur mission of some 17,000 troops and 500 police. But Khartoum has not agreed to strengthening an African Union force of 7,000 now in Darfur.

Farrow appeared in "Rosemary's Baby" and a number of Woody Allen movies. She was once married to singer Frank Sinatra.


AlertNet news is provided by

Email this article       Send comments

Topics

•  Children

MORE >>

Emergencies

•  Sudan conflicts

•  Central African Republic troubles

MORE >>

Countries

Small country map
© 2004 Europa Technologies Ltd.
Reset map

•  Central African Republic profile
· View map

•  Chad profile
· View map

•  Sudan profile
· View map

MORE >>

NGO latest

•  Operation USA Emergency Response In The Philippines
Operation USA - USA

•  New for 2007
World Response - UK

•  Somalia: ICRC calls for protection of civilians caught up in clashes in Mogadishu
ICRC - Switzerland

•  American Jewish World Service Launches National Targeted Divestment Initiative Against Sudan
AJWS - USA

•  WER calls for greater international response to Iraqi refugee crisis
WER - UK

MORE >>

Latest news

•  Mia Farrow urges UN action on Central African Rep.

•  FEATURE-Kids kill kids in crime-mired Guatemala

•  UN Council receptive to UN force in Chad and CAR

•  Conflicting reports over blast in Iraqi city

•  ICC Prosecutor Identifies First Darfur Suspects

MORE >>

Disclaimers |  Copyright |  Privacy |  Contact Us |  Feedback |  About Us |  RSS XML

Last updated:Tue Feb 27 23:09:05 2007