Central African Republic News

The UN Refugee Agency is colour-coding villages red, yellow and green in eastern Chad marking how safe it is for internally displaced persons to return home: people from areas classified as green - "safe" - will no longer be considered as IDPs, but can remain in the camps.

"We arena TMt in Sudan, are we? Because wea TMre not allowed to go to Sudan." The question, asked by an admirably rule-abiding aid worker, made me smile.

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Kouame Remi Oussou during his days as a Rotary World Peace Fellow at International Christian University.

Kenya Airways has launched direct flights to Bangui, the largest city in the Central African Republic.

National carrier Kenya Airways has launched direct flights to Bangui, the largest city in the Central African Republic.

The former president of the Central African Republic, Ange-Flix Patass, exiled in Togo since 2003, is set to return to the CAR today with the intention of standing in the next presidential elections slated for 2010.

Germany has provided $34m to help prevent Aids in central Africa, the Organisation for the Co-ordination of the Struggle Against Epidemics in Central Africa said on Tuesday.

The Synod Fathers have sent a Letter to the Presidents of the Bishops' Conferences of Sudan, Uganda, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic, signed by the three President Delegates and the Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, expressing their solidarity with the dioceses located in the Great Lakes Region, for ...

Libreville - More than 4 500 people have fled attacks by the Ugandan rebel group Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic, the Red Cross said in a statement received by AFP on Thursday.

The UN Refugee Agency is colour-coding villages red, yellow and green in eastern Chad marking how safe it is for internally displaced persons to return home: people from areas classified as green - "safe" - will no longer be considered as IDPs, but can remain in the camps.

Participants in the African Synod, which is meeting in Rome this month, interrupted their discussions on October 20 to send a message of solidarity to the suffering people of Africa's Great Lakes region.

Military contingents from five East African countries have begun field training in disaster and emergency response as well as anti-terrorism in the northern Ugandan district of Kitgum.

Children in the Central African Republic are paying a heavy price for the troubles faced by the country, and their plight could worsen without urgent international support, said a senior official with the United Nations Children's Fund .

When Laura Archer travelled to central Africa as a nurse with MA©decins Sans FrontiA res, she didn't expect to return as an artist.

Ali Bongo Ondimba, the victor in the Aug. 30 presidential elections, took oath of office on Friday at the Presidential Palace in Libreville and succeeded his father Omar Bongo Ondimba, who died on June 8 at the age of 73, after ruling the West African country for 41 years.

Joseph Kony's LRA, long feared in northern Uganda, has gradually widened it's gyre of operations, roaming vast ungoverned swathes of Southern Sudan, Eastern Congo, eastern Central African Republic and now, it seems, Darfur.

The Democratic Republic of Congo government says it is unaware of purported attacks by the Lord Resistance Army , which have forced hundreds of thousands of Congolese to flee.

Sudanese Peoplea TMs Liberation Army soldiers and Arrow boys have rescued 5 abductees, and killed three LRA bandits over the past seven days.

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