Central African Republic News

THE North Yorkshire pilot locked up in an African jail after finding a massacre is being framed for the murder, his brother fears.

A government official says assailants believed to be from Chad burned down two villages in the neighboring Central African Republic, killing three people.

A suicide bomber killed 38 Yemeni soldiers at a military parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks in the city in months, military officials and witnesses said.

A former top executive at Haiti's telecommunications company has been sentenced to nine years in prison in a major bribery case.

THE family of a Ryedale pilot held in an African prison on suspicion of murder have criticised alleged corruption keeping him in jail.

The family of a pilot imprisoned in Africa after finding 18 mutilated bodies are to meet with Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials.

ARMENIA RANKS 100TH IN WB LOGISTIC PERFORMANCE INDEX tert.am http://siteresources.worldbank.org/TRADE/Resources/239070-1336654966193/LPI_2012_final.pdf 18.05.12 Armenia ranks as the 100th country in the World Bank's 2012 Logistic Performance Index .

THE Lord's Resistance Army gives Africans nightmares. The murderous band plays on fears of magic and demonic possession.

BANGUI, 17 May 2012 - The Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration process relating to former rebels in the Central African Republic is back on track : More than 1,000 already disarmed fighters of the Popular Army for the Restoration of Democracy led by Jean Jacques Dmafouth began to be demobilized on 12-13 May.

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The lawyer of a Swedish company boss jailed in Central African Republic with 10 others on suspicion of murder on Tuesday said the real killers were rebels of Uganda 's Lord's Resistance Army.

THE Democratic Party has asked government to grant amnesty to the captured senior commander of the brutal Lord's Resistant Army , Caesar Acellam Otto.

An armed fighter of the Lord's Resistance Army is seen in Southern Sudan. The group was dealt a major blow when a top LRA commander was captured May 12.

Three years after a Vatican investigation led to the early resignation of two of the Central African Republic's leading prelates, Pope Benedict named new bishops for four of the nation's nine dioceses on May 14.

Women are so often the victims of violence, abuse and humiliations. On the other hand, women have incredible strength and determination.

Uganda says it has captured a top commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, the guerrilla movement notorious for its attacks on civilians and use of child soldiers.

Lord's Resistance Army commander Caesar Achellam is seen in Owiny Kibul in this September 20, 2006 file photo.

Lord's Resistance Army commander Ceasar Acellam gestures as he talks to the media in Djema May 13, after he was captured by Ugandan soldiers tracking down LRA fugitive leaders at a forest bordering the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A Ugandan soldier tracking down Lord's Resistance Army fugitive leaders takes position behind a machine gun at a forest bordering Central African Republic , South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, near river Chinko April 18, 2012.

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 11 May 2012, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.