Central African Republic News

Army chiefs of the Democratic Republic of Congo , Uganda and Central African Republic are meeting here on Tuesday and Wednesday to assess the operation against the Ugandan rebel movement, the Lords Resistance Army .

" France has thanked Sudan's efforts to release a French aid worker from the red Cross who had been abducted for more than three months in eastern Chad near Sudanese border.

Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa of Kisangani has organized a conference of religious leaders to discuss the action of the Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo .

The United Nations today announced a further allocation of $20 million from its Peacebuilding Fund to the Central African Republic to support security sector reform, economic revitalization and the rule of law in consolidating peace in the impoverished African country.

The Rome Statute creating the ICC was adopted in Italy July 17, 1998. It came into force in July 2002 after ratification by 60 countries.

Source: European Commission Humanitarian Aid department Daniel Dickinson Website: http:/ / ec.europa.eu/ echo Boda, Central African Republic For over 20 years the south-west of CAR has been a source of diamonds which are exported to markets across the world.

Central African Republic's President Francois Bozize has confirmed the death of a rebel leader but dismissed criticism from rights and opposition groups who are demanding an international investigation.

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Pedagogic Inspectors of Basic Education from Cameroon, Chad and the Central African Republic are meeting in Yaound for a five day workshop.

United Nations officials will hold talks in Chad this week with the country's government after it requested an end to the U.N.'s mission in the Central African Republic and Chad, a move humanitarians fear could jeopardise their work.

A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldier returns from a mission to Sudan last year.

As the shadow of the moon eclipsed the sun yesterday, leaving only a blazing ring of fire visible in Africa and parts of Asia , scientists, eclipse chasers and spectators gathered to watch the longest annular eclipse this millenium.

The six-member Central African Economic and Monetary Community opened its summit on Sunday in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic, to discuss the troubled regional bank.

Bangui - Opposition parties in the Central African Republic on Friday announced that they were quitting the electoral process and demanded the resignation of the head of the Independent Electoral Commission.

A conference of Ministers began holding yesterday 14th January in Banqui to set the pace for the 10th conference of Heads of State and Governments of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, CEMAC to take place tomorrow.

Assurances from authorities in Kinshasa that peace had been restored to their home areas in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo carry little weight with thousands of refugees across the Ubangi River in the Central African Republic : they are in no hurry to return home.

More than 107,000 Congolese refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo have fled to the Republic of Congo since the beginning of November.

Paris - For half the world, the Sun will be briefly reduced to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk on Friday, when an annular eclipse races from central Africa to eastern Asia, astronomers say.

Cette synthA se est aussi disponible en franA ais . OVERVIEW The failure of President FranA ois BozizA© and his close circle to follow through with many of the concessions agreed on during the Inclusive Political Dialogue risks exacerbating the many conflicts in the Central African Republic and stalling national reconciliation.