About one and a half million children in the civil war-torn Central African Republic (CAR) are dependent on emergency aid. At least 43,000 of them will suffer from life-threatening hunger in 2019. Furthermore, almost every child in the poverty-stricken country needs protection against warring groups. The UN children's rights organization Unicef announced this on Friday.
In an attack by Muslim rebels in a refugee camp in the Central African Republic (CAR) at least 42 people were killed. In the camp, located near a Catholic mission in the city of Alindao, about 20,000 refugees resided. According to a United Nations spokesman, thousands of them fled when the rebels set the camp on fire.
The United Nations has criticized demonstrators who left behind seventeen at the UN headquarters in the Central African Republic. 'We condemn the fact that some people use bodies as a sort of propaganda,' said a UN spokesman against the BBC.
Protesters have at least sixteen killed at the headquarters of the UN mission in the Central African Republic (CAR). These were victims who were killed in fighting in PK5, a Muslim enclave in the predominantly Christian capital Bangui. Demonstrators blame UN soldiers for shooting at civilians.
Doctors Without Frontiers (ASG) relief team have evacuated their employees in a Central African Republic (CAR) clinic after a brutal murder. Two armed men attacked the hospital in Zemio on Tuesday and killed a baby. The girl lay in her mother's arms when she was shot by her head. AzG decided to evacuate the team in Zemio to the capital Bangui.
A traffic accident in the Central African Republic has killed 78 people. They drove off with a crowded truck that hit the road. About seventy people got injured.
At least 115 people have recently died of violence in the Central African Republic (CAR), reported the Red Cross Wednesday. The relief organization has now retained all the bodies in Bangassou city. Additionally, in an attack on a United Nations convoy, five blue helmets came to life.
A demonstration in the Central African Republic has turned violent on Monday, with three deaths. Blue Helmets in the capital Bangui and unknown armed men fired at each other, said the local Red Cross. All three of the dead were protesters.
In the capital of the Central African Republic are fighting erupted Monday. Throughout Bangui told his bursts of machine guns and heavy artillery, witnesses reported.
The Bulgarian-American artist Christo supports Pope Francis in his efforts to raise money for the children in the impoverished Central African Republic. Christo is world famous as 'package artist' of buildings. This time he takes less: he has three hundred numbered and signed DVD boxes in semi-transparent plastic wrapped.
The army of the Central African Republic is trained by the European Union over the next two years. Defence ministers Tuesday gave the green light for the mission. Because the Netherlands already participating in many missions, no Dutch trainers are sent.
A referendum in the Central African Republic (CAR) has unsettled Sunday morning started. In some neighborhoods in the capital, Bangui, people can not go to the polls because of shootings.
With a visit to a mosque in a Muslim enclave in the capital Bangui, Pope Francis Monday in the Central African Republic (CAR) ended its journey in Africa. The prelate called on Christians and Muslims to fraternization to put an end to the âÇïâÇïspiraal of hatred, vengeance and bloodshed which in recent years has killed thousands of people.
Pope Francis brings Monday in the Central African Republic (CAR) is expected to visit a Muslim enclave in the capital Bangui. The prelate must therefore be cross hundreds of meters of no man's land, where Christian militias operate.
Pope Francis said Sunday the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) called to work for peace and unity of the peoples. People should not be afraid of people of a different ethnicity or adhere to another faith, the pope said in the capital Bangui.
Pope Francis will Sunday visit to the Central African Republic. It is the first time that he is doing to a country that is at war. The republic has to do for years with violent clashes between Muslims and Christians.
Pope Francis fly Wednesday to Africa, where he touches three countries over six days. During his first visit to the African continent, he is a guest in Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic. The trip will focus on two things: faith and the extensive security measures.
