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Africa, a “myriad” of markets
Africa is consuming, but not enough. The products arriving on African markets do not necessarily match demand. It is all happening too slowly. These...
New-York Forum Africa: going forward
From 14 to 16 June, Libreville moves to the beat of the second New-York Forum Africa. The success of the first forum, in June...
Central Africa Republic celebrate 50th Anniversary of Intellectual Property right
The national structure of the intellectual property right celebrates its 50th anniversary in collaboration with the week of the intellectual property right in Bangui....
Sudan and Uganda sends 2,500 troops to stop Joseph Kony
Sudan and Uganda sent 2,500 men to fight against the LRA of Joseph Kony in the democratic Republic of Congo and in the...
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Damara and Sibut, two cities located respectively 75 km and 185 km from Bangui, the CAR capital, were stormed Saturday by unidentified armed group...
Sudan: North guilty of using LRA rebels to destabilize south?
Northern Sudan has been accused of employing rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to unsettle southern Sudan and the Darfur region ahead of...
Untangling Central Africa for business
As the proper role of government continue to debated in much of the free world, Africans, and in particular Central Africans can only...
Peace process takes a hit in Central African Republic
A Sudanese led rebel faction in the Central African Republic has engaged the armies of the Central African Republic (CAR) over a disarmament, demobilization...
Lord’s Resistance Army: A Regional Strategy beyond Killing Joseph Kony
To make an end of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) once and for all, national armies, the UN and civilians need to pool...
Central African Republic: Ndele town empty after raid
Most residents have fled Ndele town in the northern CAR after clashes between rebels and the army. “The town is empty of its...
Central African Republic: Two aid workers abducted
Two French aid workers were kidnapped overnight by a gang of twenty armed men in the north eastern region of the Central African Republic...
Uganda: Lord’s Resistance Army strikes again on South Sudan and CAR borders
The Lords Resistance Army has struck again, proving to the governments of DR Congo, Uganda, Central African Republic as well as the United Nations...
Central Africa: The MLPC elects Ziguélé as presidential their candidate
After blocking the former president Ange-Félix Patassé on 13 June, the Central Africain People's Liberation Movement (MLPC), the main opposition party, elected Ziguélé Martin...
DRC: Crash of a Boeing 737 2 reported dead
A Boeing 727 leaving Brazzaville, Congo, to Bangui, Central African Republic, crashed Thursday morning 80 km from Kenge in the province of Bandundu, Democratic...
Central Africa: army committed atrocities against civilians
More than 30 people were killed by soldiers of the Army in the village of Sokumba, located about 70 km from the Chadian border,...
The United States commends the European Union
The United States commends the European Union on the successful completion of its peacekeeping operation, commonly referred to as EUFOR, in Chad and the...
CAR elections after 11 coups d’états in 10 years
Elections are being scheduled to be held in 2010, amid peace the talks currently taking place in the anarchical and crumbling Central African Republic,...
Russian role in EUFOR-Chad/CAR mission defined by EU
European foreign affairs ministers meeting in council in Luxemburg have approved Russia's participation in the EUFOR-Chad/CAR operation and defined the framework in which the...
Belgium takes over command of EUFOR in Chad and CAR
Belgium Wednesday took over the command of the special forces of the European Union Peacekeeping mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (EUFOR),...
EUFOR : Heavy Russian participation expected in September
Russia will provide four Mig-8 helicopters and 120 soldiers to the European peace-keeping mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) -- EUFOR-Chad/CAR,...
Journalist Bambou gets presidential pardon
Central African Republic's President, François Bozize, has pardoned Faustin Bambou, Director of the weekly "Les Collines de l'Oubangui", who was sentenced to six months...
Central African president appoints new premier
Central African President Francois Bozize Tuesday appointed Faustin Archange Touadera, a Professor of Mathematics in the University of Bangui, as prime minister, official sources...
UN emergency fund CERF and NGOs – “Progress made, progress to make”
In a January report, Save the Children UK - one of the more vocal non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on humanitarian financing reforms - criticised the...