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Three MSF Staff Among 16 Civilians Killed at Central African Republic Hospital

April 28, 2014 Global AuthorCAR, Central Africa Republic, Doctors without Borders, Genocide, war

AMSTERDAM/NEW YORK, April 28, 2014 – Sixteen civilians, including three national staff members of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), were killed during an armed robbery on MSF hospital grounds in the northern town of Boguila in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Saturday, April 26. The incident occurred when armed ex-Seleka members surrounded Boguila’s… Read More

CAR refugees in Chad: “What’s happening right now is unacceptable”

March 18, 2014 Global AuthorCAR, Chad, MSF, refugees, war

“It is critical to recognise that the vast majority of these persons have fled violent situations in order to save their own lives” SARAH CHATEAUHEAD OF MISSION, CHAD 18.03.2014 Refugees fleeing the Central African Republic (CAR) have to endure a long and torturous journey to escape the violence in their home country. Unfortunately once they reach Chad, their struggles… Read More

Children are new targets in Central Africa’s conflict

January 4, 2014 Global Author

IN THE latest violence to rock the crisis-prone and poor Central African Republic, children have become deliberate targets of armed gangs, mainly because of their family’s faith, aid workers say. “Before now, children were collateral victims, but today some of them are targeted directly,” said Ombretta Pasotti, who coordinates work by the Italian NGO Emergency at the paediatric hospital in... Read More

Central African Republic needs international help

December 29, 2013 Global AuthorCentral African Republic, French, Genocide, war

By Dieudonné Nzapalainga and Omar Kabine Layama, Published: December 27 Dieudonné Nzapalainga is the Roman Catholic archbishop of Bangui. Omar Kabine Layama is imam and president of the Central African Republic Islamic Community. As many participate in religious celebrations at this time of the year, our country, the Central African Republic, remains on the brink of religious warfare. In a place that most of the… Read More

CAR: Machete Wielding Youths Lay Corpses In Bangui Streets

December 27, 2013 Global AuthorCAR, Genocide, Rebels, UN, war

The United Nations was alarmed yesterday when dozens of dead bodies were found lying all over the streets in Bangui town in the Central African Republic. The dead bodies are a reflection of the work being done by youths armed with machetes and grenades who have embarked on a career of mass massacre. The Archbishop and the Imam of Bangui… Read More

Looting, killing of Christians, churches set on fire in CAR – UN

December 18, 2013 Global Authorafrica, CAR, Christians, refugees, war

People are pictured at a refugee camp set in the garden of Notre Dame de Fatima church, in Bangui, Central African Republic on December 16, 2013. Picture: FRED DUFOUR / AFP GENEVA – Some 210,000 people have been uprooted from their homes by violence in the Central African Republic capital in the past two weeks alone, the United Nations… Read More

Central African Republic: Tragedy At the Imam’s House

December 12, 2013 Global AuthorCAR, HRW, UN, violence, war

Photo: Voxcom/IRIN Some of the LRA soldiers sit outside, Sudan, April 2007. On Thursday morning, the photographer Marcus Bleasdale and I went to see the imam of Bossangoa, Central African Republic (CAR), at his home in the Muslim Boro district of the town. The situation in Bossangoa was tense as word spread of heavy fighting in the capital, Bangui, between the… Read More

What’s at stake in the Central African Republic?

January 10, 2013 Global AuthorCAR, Central African Republic, Imperialism, minerals, Rebels

Recent events in the Central African Republic (CAR) provides a test-case for the future of the continent and the role of imperialist governments in their ongoing interventions into the internal affairs of various nation-states. Threatened with a rebel alliance, known as Seleka, the regime of President Francois Bozize has been making an effort to remain in power by requesting the... Read More

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