Central African Republic News

The military overthrow of the democratically elected government of Honduras is the latest example of a long history of such attempts at political change in this hemisphere.

A young child leans against a wall in Cameroon, where resources are currently strained with the integration of 60,000 refugees from the Central African Republic.

Noting that no less than 30 African nations have officially repudiated their treaty obligations under the ICC in order to protect genocidaire Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Chicago international law expert Eric Posner writes: It is increasingly clear that the ICC, like every utopian international institution that preceded it, will not ...

If any novelist wrote a tale about a young Israeli orchestral musician who became a world expert on the music of the Baka Pygmies of Central Africa, thereby directly influencing Steve Reich, Herbie Hancock and Madonna, readers would deem the story unlikely.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank's International Development Association have agreed that the Central African Republic has made sufficient progress and taken the necessary steps to reach the completion point under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative.

The United States is prepared to provide more military observers, police and civilian staff to beef up the U.N.'s far-flung peacekeeping operations, the U.S. ambassador said Monday.

Areva Resources Southern Africa pilots standard technology platform for managing and optimizing the use of its exploration information assets in South Africa When France's Areva, the world leader in technology solutions for nuclear power generation, acquired UraMin in mid-2007, that Canadian company was a junior success story.

The United States has begun accepting the first group of 1,800 refugees it plans to resettle annually from communities and overburdened refugee camps in Chad.

A group of 11 refugees left the Chadian capital N'Djamena by air on Sunday to be resettled in the United States.

Lasting security remains elusive in the north and northeast of Central African Republic, despite truces struck with armed groups and a national conference held in late 2008 in an effort to steer the country out of a devastating cycle of violence that has persisted more or less since independence in 1960.

Abstract Seismic anisotropy beneath broad-band stations in the vicinity of the East African rift are compared with those on stable cratonic parts of Africa and Arabia.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. is committed to helping the world's 34 million refugees build safe and fulfilling lives, calling their struggle a "humanitarian emergency." In a statement released Saturday to commemorate World Refugee Day, Clinton called on the world community to end what she called "urgent refugee crises" in ...

The African Union said on Thursday that it was concerned at the resurgence of armed clashes in the Central African Republic.

The Rev. Olin Sletto read his recently published book, "God's Holy Breath," to a group of children at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Spring Hill Mall last week as part of the bookstore's Friday Night Pajama Storytime.

The Central African Republic on Monday launched an investigation into the killing of a local employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The International Criminal Court on Monday ordered former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to stand trial on charges of commanding a militia that unleashed a campaign of murder, rape and pillage in the Central African Republic.

Security forces in the remote north of Central African Republic clashed with rebels late last week, killing at least 20 people in a resurgence of fighting which has forced tens of thousands from their homes.

The former head of state of the Central African Republic, CAR, Ange-Felix Patasse, has told IWPR he will take part in presidential elections there next year, but analysts warn such a move runs the risk of tipping the fragile country into another crisis.

Geneva - Armed men killed a local employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross at Birao in the north of the Central African Republic, the ICRC said on Thursday.

A Central African staff member of the International Committee of the Red Cross has been killed.