Reports

NAIROBI, 15 January (IRIN) - The French government has announced it would allocate €120,000 in medical aid to the Central African Republic (CAR), which has been shaken by violence since the eruption of fighting on 25 October 2002. In a…

BANGUI, 14 janvier (IRIN) - Le ministre adjoint de la Défense de la République centrafricaine (RCA), le général Xavier Sylvestre Yangongo, a démenti mardi les informations annonçant que les rebelles s'étaient emparés de la ville de Bouar, à 454…

BANGUI, 14 January (IRIN) - The Central African Republic (CAR) deputy defence minister, Gen Xavier Sylvestre Yangongo, denied on Tuesday reports that rebels had taken the city of Bouar, 454 km northwest of the capital, Bangui. "It is scandalous and…

By Christian Dietrich The first impression of the Central African Republic (CAR) on arrival in the capital, Bangui, is of a country forgotten by the rest of the world. There are few embassies, and those countries that do have political…

CAR, 13 January (IRIN) - The president of the Central African Republic CAR, Ange-Felix Patasse, has said there will be no general amnesty for rebel forces involved in recent insurgencies. "Yesterday I met the magistrates, to whom I put the…

BANGUI, 10 January (IRIN) - University students returned to classes on Friday, a day after battling police in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, over the government's failure to pay them their scholarship allowances. "The government has not paid…

BANGUI, 10 January (IRIN) - Deputy Defence Minister Xavier Yangongo of the Central African Republic (CAR) denied on Thursday reports that rebels had captured the town Damara, 80 km northeast of the capital, Bangui capital. "It is wrong. The road…

BANGUI, 9 January (IRIN) - The coordinator of the national reconciliation dialogue in the Central African Republic (CAR), Bishop Paulin Pomodino, has said that a committee is being set up to decide a date, venue and agenda for its…

BANGUI, 9 janvier (IRIN) - En République centrafricaine, le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) a recommencé à distribuer de la nourriture aux 84 000 personnes ayant souffert de la tentative de coup d'état de 2001, dans les banlieues sud de…

BANGUI, 9 January (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) in the Central African Republic has resumed food distribution in the southern suburbs of the capital, Bangui, to 84,000 victims of a coup attempt in 2001, according to the…