Stranded Nigerians in CAR rescued by embassy officials after viral video revealed their abandonment and unpaid wages by a ...

What? Inauguration of Water and Sanitation infrastructureWho? Government of the Central African Republic and the African Development BankWhen? 6 August 2025Where? Bangui, Central African RepublicAs ...

BANGUI-- Thousands of Muslims fled for their lives from the capital of Central African Republic on Friday, with Christian crowds cheering as the truckloads of Muslim families made their way out of ...

Bodies in the morgue of the Hôpital Communautaire in Bangui. William Daniels—Panos Dec. 6, 2013. Bodies of Christians, including some anti-balaka fighters, in front of the National Assembly.

Most of Bangui, situated along the banks of the wide Ubangi River, hasn’t had running water for more than a year. At night people spill into the streets in search of water, lugging empty yellow ...

In Bangui before the violence between the city’s Muslim and Christian communities reached a crescendo in recent weeks, life was hardly easy in the first place. Unemployment and poverty are sky ...

Muslims have increasingly been targeted since Bangui mayor Catherine Samba-Panza, a Christian, was elected interim president in January.

Mohamed Bomassa was saved today by his baseball cap. “Pour la Paix” it reads, he holds it up for a photo. “This protected me,” he says, explaining that for a Muslim youth crossing Bangui ...

A VOA reporter in Bangui, Bagassi Koura, reports that Fatima remained tense on Friday, adding that sporadic gunshots could be heard, and that a number of barricades were blocking traffic there and ...

Joseph Bendounga (C), a local opposition leader, speaks to a crowd of people angered by an attack on a church in central Bangui, May 29, 2014.