Around 50 people have been killed in Bria, in the Central African Republic, when clashes broke out between rival armed factions despite the signing a day earlier of a truce deal, the mayor of the town has said. Bodies lay in the streets of Bria, around 580km northeast of the[…]
Rebels in Central African Republic killed at least 32 civilians after clashes with a rival armed group, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday, a sign of the fighters’ growing boldness amid limited state authority. Despite successful elections last year that were seen as a step toward reconciliation after years[…]
Nearly half of the population in war-torn Central African Republic – more than two million people – need humanitarian aid despite progress in stabilizing the country since it plunged into chaos in 2013, a United Nations official said on Monday. The country has been plagued by conflict since March 2013,[…]
Central African Republic’s constitutional court confirmed former mathematics professor Faustin-Archange Touadera, has been elected as president, national radio reported on Tuesday, setting the stage for Touadera to be sworn in later this month. About 62 percent of voters in the Central African Republic chose Touadera, once a prime minister under[…]
The last 72 hours have seen some of the worst levels of violence in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), in over a year, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), the medical charity. The violence has overwhelmed medical facilities and crippled humanitarian work, the charity says. Emmanuel[…]
In a broad swathe of the Central African Republic (CAR) — roughly the western third of the country — the country’s Muslim minority has largely disappeared. The site of a violent wave of ethnic cleansing in early 2014, this region still very much suffers from its consequences. While a few[…]
Militias have taken advantage of the political vacuum in Central African Republic (CAR), engaging in ethnic cleansing of Muslims in a bid to erase the community from the country, human rights group Amnesty International has said. Discussing Friday’s report, entitled “Erased identity: Muslims in ethnically cleansed areas of the Central[…]
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