Central African Republic

Effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease enters ‘last mile’
The final years of the eradication effort, led by the US’s Carter Center, will be the ‘most difficult’, expert says.
Published On 25 Jan 2023
Mali’s military leader Goita pardons 49 Ivory Coast soldiers
The mass pardoning comes one week after Mali sentenced 46 of the jailed Ivorian soldiers to 20 years in prison.
Published On 7 Jan 2023
Mail bomb wounds Russian official in CAR – Russian news agency
The founder of the Russian private military company Wagner has accused France of being behind the bomb.
Published On 16 Dec 2022
Ukraine says it killed Wagner mercenaries, who are they?
Controversial armed group emerged from being a murky guns-for-hire enterprise to a public extension of the Russian army.
Published On 12 Dec 2022

If the presidents of Senegal and the Central African Republic are planning constitutional coups, the AU must step in.

The attack on the peacekeepers occurred close to the border with Cameroon, in an area rife with militia activity.

La Nina’s cooling effect on the planet did not stop 2021 from being one of the seven hottest years on record.

Cameroon, home to half a million refugees, is one of a few African nations that has issued a number of refugee IDs.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has declared the situation in DR Congo to be the world’s most neglected refugee crisis.

Preparations for vaccination against monkeypox begin in Africa as it reported 1,597 cases and 66 deaths in 2022 so far.

About 170 countries so far have abolished or introduced moratoria of death penalties in law or practice.

Experts say Russia’s involvement in Central Africa could be over just as quicky as it began.

The Kremlin-linked mercenary group Wagner has been accused of perpetrating human rights abuses in Mali and now CAR.

The attack is the latest in the mineral-rich Central African Republic which has been mired in violence since 2013.

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