Both the Azande Ani Kpi Gbe, a Zandé-based ethnic militia based in the southeast, and the Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (Union pour la Paix en Centrafrique, UPC), a member of ...

An explosion and the stampede that followed at a high school in the Central African Republic have killed at least 29 students ...

Subsistence agriculture, together with forestry and mining, remains the backbone of the economy of the Central African Republic (CAR), with about 60% of the population living in outlying areas.

Attempts to purge Muslims from parts of the Central African Republic have prompted “a Muslim exodus of historic proportions,” Amnesty International says.

Central African leaders created CEMAC about a decade later, launching it in 1999 for the same purpose. The African Union reports that free movement of people and goods remains a dream in a ...

The United Nations peacekeeping chief has warned that the conflict in Sudan is spilling across its southwest border into Central African Republic. Undersecretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix told ...

Central African health workers fighting mpox face lack of vaccines and medication Nov 29, 2022 6:35 PM EDT. By ... is authorized for use in the European Union and in the U.S., ...

The African Union is divided into five regions - Southern, Central, Eastern, Western and Northern Africa. Only Northern and Eastern regions have not produced chairs for the Commission since its ...

Some key dates in the history of the Central African Republic: 1880s - France annexes the area, ... UN takes over and augments African Union peacekeeping mission, renamed Minusca.

In the Central African Republic, peacekeeping missions are losing popular support by failing to meet people’s expectations, leaving room for more ruthless actors.

Anti-balaka and the Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (Union pour la Paix en Centrafrique, UPC), a Seleka faction, clashed multiple times on the road between Bambari and Ippy, in the ...

The Central African Republic (CAR) has been almost continuously unstable since independence from France in 1960. It is rich in diamonds, gold, oil and uranium, but has one of the world's poorest ...