[RFI]Europe's pledge to send a force to the violence-torn Central African Republic (CAR) overshadowed the fourth European Union-Africa summit held in Brussels this week. CAR President Catherine Samba-Panza promised to work for reconciliation between Christians and Muslims after an explosion of sectarian violence....
[UN News]Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid a visit to the Central African Republic (CAR) on Saturday to focus the world's attention on a crisis that has been marked by widespread atrocities and suffering, and to call on the country's citizens to heed the lessons of neighbouring Rwanda and stop the violence....
[Deutsche Welle]UN chief Ban Ki-moon has visited refugees housed at a mosque in strife-torn Bangui in the Central African Republic. He also urged UN members to back his call for a peacekeeping force to end inter-religious violence....
[Deutsche Welle]The UN has accused Chadian soldiers of carrying out an unprovoked attack in the Central African Republic's capital Bangui. On Thursday, Chad announced the withdrawal of its troops from the AU peacekeeping mission in CAR....
[VOA]Bangui -Many people in the Central African Republic are welcoming Chad's decision to withdraw its troops from the African Union peacekeeping force in the country....
[VOA]Geneva -An investigation by U.N. human rights monitors has found that on March 29, Chadian soldiers fired on civilians in the Central African Republic's capital, killing and wounding dozens. The investigators say the soldiers were likely on a mission to evacuate Muslims from a volatile area....
[UN News]A preliminary investigation by the United Nations human rights office into the deadly events that took place on 29 March in a suburb of Bangui, the crisis-riven capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), has found that Chadian soldiers killed some 30 civilians and seriously wounded more than 300 in an indiscriminate attack on a crowded market....
[African Union]SPECIAL MEETING ON THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC...
[HRW]Johannesburg -Anti-balaka fighters killed at least 72 Muslim men and boys, some as young as nine, in two recent attacks in southwestern Central African Republic....
[IMF]An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, headed by Mr. Ekué Kpodar, visited Douala, Cameroon, from March 24 to April 2, 2014 to finalize discussions with the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) authorities on an emergency program that could be supported by the IMF's Rapid Credit Facility (RCF). The mission held discussions with the C.A.R. Minister of Finance and Budget, Mr. Rémi Yakoro, his...
[RFI]French troops in the Central African Republic (CAR) are furious because a computer glitch has deprived them of bonuses that should double their pay. Soldiers who arrived in the violence-ravaged country in February and March will not receive the foreign operations bonus until May thanks to faulty software, RFI has learned....
[Deutsche Welle]European and African leaders have opened a major summit seeking deeper political, economic and investment ties. The meeting will also focus on conflict prevention, like the violence in the Central African Republic....
[VOA]Chad is withdrawing its forces from the African peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic....
[ICRC]Bangui -More than 4,300 people in the city of Ndélé, in the north-eastern part of the Central African Republic, received food and other basic necessities last week in a distribution carried out by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in cooperation with the Central African Red Cross Society....
[ICRC]Widespread violence plaguing the Central African Republic is causing countless casualties and forcing thousands from their homes. The ICRC's president Peter Maurer was in CAR on 26-28 March, seeing our surgical teams in action and our aid effort at the M'Poko displaced peoples' settlement near Bangui airport. In this interview on his return he called for greater security in CAR, which would help...
[VOA]African and European leaders are focusing on the Central African Republic (CAR) crisis at a summit in Brussels....
[New Times]MANY EVENTS are taking place in the run up to commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Among them was the International Conference of Prevention of Genocides that took place in Brussels this week....
[ANGOP]The situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) topped Wednesday's mini-summit held in Brussels, Belgium, in which Angola was represented by the Vice President, Manuel Vicente....
[Deutsche Welle]European and African leaders from some 70 nations are seeking to improve political and economic cooperation between their two continents at a two-day Brussels summit....
[Daily Maverick]They said the Rwandan genocide would never happen again. They were wrong. SIMON ALLISON examines why the international community is failing the Central African Republic just as badly. It might not be a genocide yet, but whatever it is, we're doing precious little to stop it happening....