Angola Gives $10 Million in Aid to CAR

By ADF On Oct 8, 2014

Women and children wait in line in the Begoua district, northeast of Bangui, in the Central African Republic to receive food and medicine in April 2014.

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Angola announced $10 million in aid for the strife-torn Central African Republic, with a possible credit line in the future, during a visit by the CAR’s president in March 2014.

Joaquim do Espirito Santo, Africa director in the Angolan Foreign Affairs Ministry, said the aid was to support the transitional government and to respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis. “There may be negotiations for an agreement opening a line of credit,” he said.

Making an official two-day visit to Luanda, Angola, CAR Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza said there were “still peaks of violence” but that the general situation was beginning to come under control.

The CAR’s needs are huge, and the country relies on the support of its “African brothers,” she said. Earlier, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recommended deploying nearly 12,000 peacekeepers to re-establish order amid sectarian killings and chaos, which erupted after a March 2013 coup.