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There are more boy scouts than peacekeepers in the CAR. Even in the midst of a civil war, the scouts are arguably more effective
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The company that left SA troops high and dry in the CAR is still bagging major SANDF contracts.
While South African soldiers were fighting for their lives in the CAR last year, a different battle was going on back at defence headquarters.
In efforts to stem the violence in the Central African Republic, Rwanda says it will send some 800 troops to the country.
Gun battles between rival militias in Bangui, the CAR’s capital, has killed at least one person and sent hundreds fleeing to a makeshift camp.
The incorrect use of bulletproof vests in the Battle of Bangui in the CAR has been blamed for the deaths of 15 South African soldiers.
Sporadic armed clashes, looting of orphanages, recruitment into armies, and widespread school closures have made life perilous for CAR’s children.
Zuma seems to be angling for the redeployment of the defence force to the Central African Republic, writes David Smith.
The coup in the Central African Republic has left devastation in its wake, with production in the country almost at a standstill.
South African army casualties in the Central African Republic two weeks ago may have been dramatically higher than the military has been telling us.
There has been no official confirmation that South African troops and equipment have been shipped to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
A fortnight after 13 South African soldiers died in the battle for Bangui, much remains unclear about what happened, and why.
Injured South African soldiers in the capital Bangui may be facing further medical hardship at a hospital that has no staff or doctors to run it.
Even so, a witness to the coup says that, while South African troops stood firm, government soldiers fled.
Fighting erupted in Central African Republic’s Bangui on Sunday after a lull in clashes between the army and rebels seeking to topple the president.
Residents in the Central African Republic (CAR) appealed on Monday for international help to curb cross-border rebel raids in which more than 150 children and adults people have been kidnapped. An open letter said the worst incident was in March when rebels looted and burned down houses in the south-east and kidnapped 157 locals.
Rebels fighting a low-intensity war in the north-east of the Central African Republic (CAR), one of the poorest countries on earth, have agreed to release 400 child soldiers, the United Nations children’s agency, Unicef, said on Friday. A spokesperson for Unicef in the capital, Bangui, said the children were expected to be demobilised in early June.
A Central African Republic rebel group and the government were to sign a deal on Friday to put an end to hostilities and share power, officials said. ”The time has come to make peace and work together for the reconstruction of our country,” said Damane Zakaria, the military chief of the rebel Union of Democratic Forces Coalition.
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Central African Republic government troops, backed by French forces, have launched an offensive against rebels who had captured several north-eastern towns, the government and the French military said on Tuesday. The government in Bangui said its troops had retaken one town, Birao, which had been in rebel hands since October 30.
A court in the Central African Republic sent a rebel leader accused of plotting to assassinate President Francois Bozize to prison for life on Friday for endangering state security. Jean-Noel Bangue was also found guilty of complicity, rebellion, assassination, looting, theft, grievous bodily harm and several other charges.
Deadly clashes broke out between the Central African Republic (CAR) army and rebels who crossed into the country from neighbouring Chad, the CAR Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. ”Heavily armed” Chadian rebels attacked forces of the CAR and the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa near Gordil in the north-east of the country, the ministry said.