Central African Republic News

A new database on the world's soils offers insights that c an be helpful in addressing climate change and food production, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization "The more information ...

Tanzania will become one of the beneficiaries of USD24.5m issued this week by the African Development Fund to fight river blindness in Africa.

Brock Boddie at HPDT CAR , a blog by the humanitarian and development organizations in the Central African Republic, writes about Prime Minister Faustin Touadera's emergency appeal for international support ...

The military intelligence service has added 15 countries to its list of failing states since 1996, Defence Minister Eimert van Middelkoop has told the Lower House.

No one seriously disputes that Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, has presided over a regime which regularly resorts to massacre and repression.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Small farmers to get aid from FAO By Ira Karen Apanay, Reporter THE Philippines is one of the new 48 countries that will be covered by a series of projects of the Food and Agriculture ...

Most discussions of China's search for resources in Africa focus on oil and minerals.

The U.N. High Commission for Refugees says that in the five years since camps were established in Southern Chad for Central African refugees, U.N.-administered agriculture programs have reduced external food ...

The Central African region is preparing to transform its multinational peacekeeping force, which has notably seen action in the troubled Central Africa Republic, in a peace consolidation mission, according to ...

Sadakat Kadri reviews A History of Political Trials: from Charles I to Saddam Hussein by John Laughland A competently choreographed show trial can prove the most extraordinary crimes.

Abducted, robbed and raped this year by raiding Ugandan rebels, Henriette and other villagers in a remote south-east corner of the Central African Republic live in daily fear their attackers will return.

As the G8 summit in Japan opens, Carolyn Miller, chief executive of the medical aid agency Merlin, argues for a push to cut deaths during childbirth in the developing world.

Jul. 4 - People who have fled war and armed bandits face the misery and hardship of the region's rainy season.

F ORMER Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba has arrived in the Netherlands to face war crimes charges before the International Criminal Court , Olara Florence, the UN court's spokeswoman, said yesterday.

Former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba appeared Friday for the first time at the International Criminal Court, where he faces rape and torture charges linked to a brutal conflict in Central African ...

Ton Koene is a freelance photographer who travelled recently to northern Central African Republic with medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres to document the plight of villagers caught up in one of ...

Once best known for the excesses of its former president-turned-emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the Central African Republic is a landlocked, resource-rich but poor country at the heart of the African continent.

UN News Service 24 June 2008 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed a peace agreement signed by the Government of the Central African Republic and two rebel groups after talks facilitated by the Gabonese ...

On a recent visit to the northern regions of CAR, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador witnessed first-hand how schools have begun to reopen, improving the lives of children affected by conflict here.

Two civil servants in the Central African Republic have been jailed for three years for forging the president's signature last year.