Central African Republic News
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A failure to get defense witnesses to The Hague in time or to set up video link facilities in African countries where they are based has continued to slow down the presentation of evidence by lawyers for Jean-Pierre Bemba. The trial of the former vice president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who has been in the custody of
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Bangui - The Seleka rebels who overthrew Central African Republic's president are now demanding that they be paid before they disarm. Seleka Lieutenant Ali Alkanto said on Saturday that his fighters should receive salaries before they lay down their arms. He said if the new government doesn't pay the rebels there could be violent clashes. The demand raises concerns about
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Bangui - The UN children's agency says a 17-year-old boy who had been twice recruited by rebels was among those stoned to death by a mob in Central African Republic. UNICEF says the teen was among 64 children who had been demobilised and moved from the country's north to the capital in December to keep them safe. The agency said
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Ndele - Armed with rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikov rifles, Seleka rebels who ousted Central African Republic's president six weeks ago are solidifying their control over the country's lucrative diamond industry and have even been selling some of the stones, witnesses here in the isolated and violent north say. Rebels have for several years controlled some of the diamond-producing areas in
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Bangui - Oils, soap and smoked fish may have returned to Bangui's colourful market stalls, but underneath the luring smells and lively buzz of haggling vendors, the tills ring empty, a sign of the Central African Republic's (CAR) crippling finances and the constant fear of looters. "I've been open since seven this morning, but at noon, I barely have 3
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Bangui - Hundreds of rebels who helped overthrow the former president of Central African Republic are gathering in the capital to be sure their demands are met by the new leader. The country's new leader Michel Djotodia has begun the process of putting together a new government, though critics say he lacks control over the rebels in the streets. Nearly
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Bangui - Central African Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye has appealed for the help of France and of a regional African force to help secure the country following violence in the wake of the rebel takeover last month. In a radio-television address late on Tuesday, Tiangaye made the appeal to France and the multinational African peacekeeping force, Fomac, after around 20
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Bangui - More than a dozen people were killed in weekend clashes between residents and fighters from the Seleka rebel coalition that seized power in Central Africa last month, according to medical and police sources and witnesses. Twelve people were killed in one area of the capital, several witnesses told AFP, while a source from the Red Cross said four
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Bangui - The rebel leader who seized power in Central African Republic, Michel Djotodia, was elected president on Saturday by an acting parliament. Djotodia led thousands of rebel fighters from the Seleka coalition into the riverside capital of the mineral-rich country on 24 March, toppling President Francois Bozize. African heads of state and Western powers had refused to recognise him
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The UN's children's agency on Friday charged that armed movements in the Central African Republic were recruiting more children, including as soldiers, in the wake of a successful coup by rebels. "Unicef has clear evidence of the continuing recruitment and use of children by armed groups in the Central African Republic," the agency said in a statement, urging leaders on
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Bangui - Looters after gold or jewels in the abandoned home of deposed Central African Republic president Francois Bozize came instead across a gruesome discovery - two human skeletons hidden beneath the garage floor. At the house in Sassara, on the outskirts of the capital Bangui, Colonel Ali Garba - one of the Seleka rebels whose coalition toppled Bozize from
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Bangui - A spokesperson for Central African Republic's new government says the country's self-declared president is now willing to speed up the process of holding new elections. Government spokesperson Crepin Mboli-Goumba said on Thursday that leader Michel Djotodia had accepted recommendations made by neighbouring countries earlier this week. Those suggestions include setting up an interim council that will lead the
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Rebels who overthrew the government of the Central African Republic are cruising the streets of the capital Bangui in captured South African military vehicles, a report said on Monday. Times Live said a group of heavily armed Seleka rebels could be seen draped over a Toyota Landcruiser on Sunday, marked with the insignia of Operation Vimbezela, the South African military
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Bangui - The coup leader in Central African Republic who has declared himself president, now says he'll also serve as the country's defence minister. The announcement came in a decree read on state radio on Sunday that also outlined other roles within the country's new unity government. Self-declared President Michel Djotodia has said he intends to stay on as president
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Bangui - Central African Republic's new president, Michel Djotodia, whose rebel forces took control of the capital Bangui last weekend, said on Friday he would request help from former colonial power France and the United States to retrain his country's ill-disciplined and demoralised army, which was easily overrun by fighters from the Seleka rebel coalition. His comments appeared to mark
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The lives of thousands of children are at risk in coup-hit Central Africa because of a lack of access to basic aid, food shortages and the ongoing use of child soldiers, the United Nations said on Tuesday. "About 600 000 children have been affected by the conflict across the country," Marixie Mercado, spokesperson for the UN's children's agency, told reporters
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Bangui - Central African Republic strongman Michel Djotodia was set to unveil a new government Tuesday after announcing he would rule by decree following the latest coup in the notoriously unstable nation. Looters were on the rampage in the capital Bangui after Djotodia's Seleka rebel coalition seized control in a rapid-fire weekend assault that forced President Francois Bozize into exile
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Bangui - The leader of rebels in Central African Republic pledged to name a power-sharing government in a bid to defuse international criticism of Sunday's coup that killed 13 South African soldiers and plunged the mineral-rich nation into chaos. Regional peacekeepers said that the leader of the Seleka rebel coalition, self-proclaimed President Michel Djotodia, appealed for help in restoring order
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The UN secretary-general has condemned the "unconstitutional seizure of power" in Central African Republic. France has sent troops to protect national interests in CAR as rebels take control of the capital. Rebels in Central African Republic, a nation of 4.5 million people, seized the riverside capital, Bangui, in fighting on Sunday, forcing President Francois Bozize to flee. According to reports,
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Bangui - Rebels in the Central African Republic advanced on the capital late on Friday claiming they were at "the gates of Bangui", after the collapse of a two-month-old peace deal. Troops from the Seleka rebel coalition shot their way through the key Damara checkpoint some 75km north of the capital, said a source with the Multinational Force of Central
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In a statement issued by the AU, she commended all the CAR parties for their commitment and sense of compromise, and urged them to spare no effort in ensuring the scrupulous implementation of the Libreville Agreements of 11 January 2013. Ms Dlamini Zuma expressed, once again, the gratitude of the AU to the leaders of the Economic Community of Central
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Less than two weeks after the signing in Libreville, Gabon of a series of peace and power-sharing deals by Central African Republic stakeholders, Sèléka rebel field commanders have expressed dismay at the terms of the accords, RFI reported yesterday, January 22, 2013. According to Col. Hamadine Guidam, a former member of UFDR rebels, his men are not satisfied with the
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One month after launching a blitz offensive which brought them close to the capital, the Seleka rebel coalition has forced President François Bozize to share power. The challenge for the new government of national unity is to stabilize the country. Larger than France, the Central African Republic is a paragon of the 'fragile state'. Some political scientists, such as the
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BANGUI, Central African Republic (AFP) Central African President Francois Bozize on Saturday sacked his prime minister to comply with the terms of a ceasefire deal reached with a rebel coalition during talks in Libreville. Faustin Archange Touadera was dismissed as prime minister in a decree read out on public radio and should be replaced by a member of the opposition.
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The UN Security Council is welcoming the ceasefire agreement and peace deal in the Central African Republic that will allow President Francois Bozize to stay in office and let the opposition run the government. The council emphasised the need for "expeditious implementation" of the agreements reached in Libreville, Gabon on Friday, and called on all parties "to implement them in
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