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Central African Republic

July 2024

  • A young woman in a colourful headscarf with her face hidden

    ‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic

  • A group of men stand outside near some trees, some holding bows

    Kidnappings soar in central Africa’s ‘triangle of death’

May 2024

  • COLOMBIA-CONFLICT-PERFORMANCE<br>People take part in a performance consisting in getting buried up to their waists and staying in that position as much as their bodies resist as part of the commemoration of the VII National Week of Remembrance, to support the dignity of victims of the armed conflict, symbolic reparation, resistance and social reconstruction that contribute to the construction of historical memory, at 13 Comuna shantytown in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on Octuber 16, 2014. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Opinion
    From Colombia to Syria justice is possible for survivors of sexual violence in war

    Clara Sandoval
    For the first time Ukraine had the right conditions to make reparations to those subjected to crimes such as rape and sexual slavery. What would it take to replicate this globally?

April 2024

  • Former Central African Republic president François Bozizé

    Arrest warrant issued for Central African Republic’s former president over crimes against humanity

    François Bozizé is wanted by special criminal court over alleged crimes including murder and torture

October 2023

  • Women waving Niger flags, blowing horns and holding placards.

    France’s departure from Niger reflects years of failure in its former colonies

    Niger is only the latest of several west African countries to reject France’s long-standing attempts to interfere in its former colonies

August 2023

  • Dino Mahtani

    Before Prigozhin’s death, Wagner was fighting on Russia’s behalf in Africa. What happens now?

    Dino Mahtani
  • A photograph, which was provided by the French military, reportedly shows three Russian mercenaries along with a Malian soldier in northern Mali.

    Could reported death of Wagner chief push African leaders closer to Kremlin?

July 2023

  • Workers load grain at a port in Izmail, Ukraine, on 26 April 2023.

    Putin promises free grain to six African nations after collapse of Black Sea deal

    President says Russia will replace blocked Ukrainian exports after it abandoned pact on passage of ships
  • Yevgeny Prigozhin speaks in the headquarters of the Russian southern army military command centre in the city of Rostov-on-Don. Photograph: press service of Concord/Handout via Reuters

    Today in Focus
    Putin v Prigozhin: is Wagner too valuable to crush?

    When Wagner forces turned their guns against Russian forces it led to panic in Moscow. But after the coup was aborted and its leader accused of treachery, it was business as usual for the group’s lucrative Africa operations. Pjotr Sauer and Jason Burke report
  • Yevgeny Prigozhin

    ‘It is like a virus that spreads’: business as usual for Wagner group’s extensive Africa network

    Despite Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion against the Kremlin, his military contracts are proving too profitable to lose

May 2023

  • Sudanese refugees, along with their livestock, crossing into Chad, 30 April 2023.

    Sudan’s neighbours have little to offer refugees, warns UN

    Thousands of Sudanese are crossing borders into countries already severely stressed by drought, conflicts and food insecurity, UN says

March 2023

  • Militants from the Coalition of Patriots for Change

    Armed men kill nine Chinese nationals in Central African Republic

    Rebel alliance Coalition of Patriots for Change denies responsibility after mayor accuses them of attack

February 2023

  • A soldier from the government Central African territorial infantry battalion passes a Russian flag in Bangui in December 2022.

    Wagner mercenaries sustain losses in fight for Central African Republic gold

    Russian fighters clash with rebels as Kremlin tries to extend power in mineral rich country

December 2022

  • A member of the Wagner-run close protection unit for Central African Republic’s president, operating as Sewa Security Services.

    Ally of Wagner Group boss hurt in ‘assassination attempt’ in central Africa

    Dmitry Sytii under US sanctions for links to mercenary group founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is close to Vladimir Putin

November 2022

  • Emmanuel Macron speaking at a Francophone summit in Tunisia

    Emmanuel Macron accuses Russia of feeding disinformation in Africa

  • The Yangambi forest in the Congo basin.

    How dash for African oil and gas could wipe out Congo basin tropical forests

June 2022

  • Goldmining in Central African Republic

    Russian mercenaries accused of deadly attacks on mines on Sudan-CAR border

    Dozens of people said to have been killed in attacks allegedly involving Wagner Group fighters

January 2022

  • A resident continues to extract items from her home after it was flooded by last year's hurricanes Eta and Iota in the Saviñon Cruz neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. The devastation wrought by November's hurricanes and the economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic has added to the forces of poverty and gang violence that drive Hondurans to migrate. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

    World’s poorest bear brunt of climate crisis: 10 underreported emergencies

    Care International report highlights ‘deep injustice’ neglected by world’s media, as extreme weather along with Covid wipes out decades of progress

November 2021

  • Portuguese air force plane

    Portuguese UN soldiers investigated in anti-smuggling operation

    Military planes were allegedly used to smuggle diamonds, drugs and gold out of Central African Republic

March 2021

  • A truck reportedly used by the Russian private military contractor Wagner Group at a looted Faca base in Bangassou, Central African Republic.

    Russian mercenaries behind human rights abuses in CAR, say UN experts

    Independent experts ‘deeply disturbed’ by connections between Wagner Group and violence since election
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