Bossangoa, Central African Republic News

Health workers in the Central African Republic are blaming poor family planning as well as high prices for worsening malnutrition in northern parts of the country.

Life in Birao and Bossangoa, CAR A group of Darfurian refugees who recently fled the war in Sudan have gathered across the border in the northern Central African Republic.

Former Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba is at the International Criminal Court in the Hague awaiting trial on charges related to violence committed by his troops in the Central African Republic.

Northern Central African Republic has large areas controlled by rebels, and road bandits, intercepting vehicles, harassing civilians, and sometimes kidnapping them for ransom or killing them.

“What we want is security...let our cursed sisters who were raped, brutalised, traumatised and bereaved have peace of mind and the hope of being women, mothers, and grandmothers”

The Monam group of rape survivors in the northern town of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic does what it can to keep going, but morale is low and money tight. via IRIN

“As of today, these abuses have fallen dramatically.”

GENEVA : Government troops in the Central African Republic are carrying out unlawful executions despite attempts by the country's president to end the practice, a U.N. human rights expert said. via International Herald Tribune

“I would love to go home. It is where I belong, but I cannot return there until I know that my children will be safe”

Despite the pain and hardship of being displaced from their homes, the Peuhl people of the Central African Republic are continuing with their traditional way of life. via UNICEF News