Central African Republic News

Areva SA agreed Tuesday to sell nearly half of its UraMin uranium mining subsidiary to Chinese partners in a deal aimed at strengthening the French nuclear engineering firm's strategic partnership in China.

Extrajudicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests, mostly attributed to the defence and security forces and encouraged by a culture of impunity, have contributed to a considerable deterioration in human ...

Friday, 10 October 2008, 10:17 am Press Release: United Nations General Assembly President calls for boosting UN's peacebuilding capacity 9 October 2008 – The President of the General Assembly today ...

The federal government has reversed its decision to deport an African immigrant who fears he'll be killed if sent back home, setting him free after two months in detention.

Submitting his second annual report on the organization which he heads, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the United Nations must resist tendencies to simply call for action and instead focus on enhancing its ...

On Friday, October 3, 2008, President Bush signed into law The Child Soldiers Accountability Act , a law which makes it a federal crime prosecutable in the US for anyone to recruit and use sldiers under the age ...

Sarah Palin did well in the debate just now, I thought, particularly compared to her disastrous interviews with ABC and CBS.

A rebel group in Central African Republic seized control of a village near the Sudanese border in the north of the country overnight, police said.

The Foreign Minister of Chad today called for a strengthened United Nations peacekeeping mission in his country and for the reinforcement of the hybrid UN-African Union Mission in Darfur in the neighbouring ...

The commander of European Union peacekeeping troops in Chad said Monday he hopes Russian helicopters will be in place to support the mission in early November despite the cooling of relations over Georgia.

The European Union expects Russia to supply it with helicopters for its Chad peace mission despite its dispute with Moscow over Georgia.

Fifteen people were killed and dozens badly burned in Central African Republic when a petrol tanker that had overturned exploded as villagers tried to salvage fuel from it, survivors and officials said today.

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An International Monetary Fund mission, led by Martin Petri, visited the Central African Republic during September 11-25, 2008 to conduct the third review of the authorities' program supported by the Poverty ...

To access this report in French, please click here. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS The political and security crisis Chad faces is internal, and has been exacerbated rather than caused by the meddling of ...

The Swedish government has promised to grant US$ 2.3 million to finance the Strategic Plan of the Mozambican Human Rights League for the period up until 2011.

A senior diplomat has affirmed Vietnam's support for the continued mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad .

The trade in bushmeat in Central Africal is in danger of wiping out a significant number of animal species within 50 years, conservationists have warned.

The International Criminal Court , which was established in 2002, has todate initiated investigations exclusively in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A special security unit of the Chadian army composed of national police and gendarmes responsible for the protection of refugees and internally displaced persons today began its first reconnaissance visit to ...