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/ 1 December 2010
Chad’s army says it has entered the north-west part of neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) and pushed out a group of rebels.
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/ 24 November 2010
A heavy silence hung in the air in a conference hall in Bangui as hundreds of people gathered to watch Jean-Pierre Bemba face a courtroom.
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/ 22 November 2010
Former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba of the DRC goes on trial on Monday for rapes and murders allegedly committed by his troops.
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/ 18 February 2010
Two top UN officials on Wednesday warned that withdrawing UN peacekeepers from Chad would hurt the area’s civilian population.
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/ 2 December 2009
Former DRC vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba poses a flight risk and a threat to witnesses and must remain in custody, a judge said on Wednesday.
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/ 25 November 2009
Dozens were killed in Central African Republic when Ugandan rebels attacked villagers but were then ambushed by Ugandan soldiers, a witness said.
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/ 8 September 2009
Ugandan troops have crossed into neighbouring Central African Republic in pursuit of LRA rebels with Bangui’s blessing, a spokesperson said Tuesday.
An aid official in the Central African Republic expressed horror on Tuesday at weekend clashes over cattle poaching that left at least 22 people dead.
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/ 19 January 2009
President Francois Bozize on Monday reappointed Faustin-Archange Touadera as prime minister, just a day after dissolving the government.
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/ 16 September 2008
The Central African Republic (CAR) and a leading rebel group came closer to drafting a peace deal in talks that resumed in Gabon on Monday.
Authorities in the Central African Republic give the green light for a leading rebel group to form a political party.
The next time you grab a handful of cashew nuts, think that you may be holding the economic heartbeat of one tiny West African state in your hand.
Donors are ramping up aid to the neglected Central African Republic because they fear cross-border conflicts in Darfur and Chad could expand.
Abducted and raped this year by raiding Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, Henriette and other villagers live in daily fear.
Ongoing clashes and the national army’s brutal response to rebel groups have created widespread insecurity.
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.
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/ 10 September 2007
A series of devastating attacks in which armed men loot homes, kill unarmed civilians and burn down villages has pushed an entire population into hiding in remote areas of the north-western Central African Republic. Villagers have fled their homes and taken to the bush, living in the forests to avoid further attacks.
The village of Korosigna in northern Central African Republic is barely recognisable to those who once lived there. Every house is either demolished, abandoned or burned to the ground. Weeds and bushes have taken hold. Many homes are barely visible as the forest has moved in and engulfed the ruins.
Bertin Wafio sits in a village clearing sipping tea from a flask, his teenage bodyguards self-consciously examining their ancient rifles and wearily scanning the horizon. ”We have been in the bush for two years now, fighting to bring peace and security to our country,” said Wafio, one of the leaders of Central African Republic’s Popular Army for the Restoration of the Republic and Democracy.
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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/ 2 December 2006
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.
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/ 6 February 2006
Troops in the Central African Republic killed about 10 unidentified ”armed bandits” who attacked a town in the north of the country, sources said on Sunday. The raid happened on Tuesday at Paoua, 500km north of the capital Bangui, they said. Several of the attackers were wounded and others were taken prisoner.
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/ 15 November 2005
The head of a labour union confronting the Central African Republic government over its failure to pay its public servants was arrested on Monday over allegations he received ”unwarranted payments”, union officials said. The Central African Republic government, in serious financial straits, is unable to pay its 20Â 000 public servants.
Floods caused by days of heavy rain have caused the collapse of about 3 000 houses and left up to 20 000 people homeless in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, a local Red Cross official told state radio on Thursday. Some of the homeless have been taken in by relatives.
Central African Republic rebel-leader-turned-President Francois Bozize has faced off against his main rival in an election run-off he hopes will bring him victory and the legitimacy he’s lacked since declaring himself head of state in a coup two years ago. Vote counting began immediately after polls closed on Sunday.
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/ 22 December 2004
The corruption trial of former Central African president Ange Felix Patasse was postponed indefintely on Wednesday at the request of prosecutors. Patasse, in exile in Togo, is charged along with four co-defendants — all of them close aides during his presidency — with stealing 70-billion CFA francs (about R803-million) in public funds.
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/ 2 September 2004
President Francois Bozize of the Central African Republic on Thursday issued a decree dismissing the government of Prime Minister Celestin-Leroy Gaombalet, state radio said. The radio gave no further details and did not say who will be appointed as the country’s new prime minister.
The northern part of the Central African Republic capital, Bangui, was cordoned off by security forces on Friday after heavy and automatic weapons fire was heard there late in the evening. Former fighters who helped bring President Francois Bozize to power have been blamed for Thursday’s unrest.
The army in Central African Republic has freed two men, including the former security chief to President Francois Bozize, who were arrested three months ago on suspicion of plotting a coup, a lawyer said on Friday. The president’s former aide and his brother were picked up in December and accused of plotting against the government.