Group guards a road in Bangui, the country’s capital, during a May Day parade, May 1, 2019.... A

ADDIS ABABA, April 21( Xinhua)--The African Union( AU) Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat on Saturday evening offered his condolences over a boat disaster in the Central African Republic( CAR)." All of our solidarity is with the government and people of the CAR following the sinking of a boat on the Mpoko river which caused deaths and injuries," Faki wrote on the social media X, formerly known as Twitter. Faki also expressed his deep condolences to the families affected by the boat disas

What I really want is stability for the country to progress," said Laurent Ngombe, a teacher and one of the first people to vote.... It has witnessed waves instability, including coups and rebellions, since independence from France in 1960.... Since then, over 1, 500 troops, including instructors and private military contractors from Russia's Wagner group, have been deployed in the country alongside the national army.( Reporting by Judicael Yongo; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Bernadette B

What I really want is stability for the country to progress," said Laurent Ngombe, a teacher and one of the first people to vote.... It has witnessed waves instability, including coups and rebellions, since independence from France in 1960.... Since then, over 1, 500 troops, including instructors and private military contractors from Russia's Wagner group, have been deployed in the country alongside the national army.( Reporting by Judicael Yongo; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Bernadette B

Stephen Townsend, the commander of U.S. armed forces in Africa, told a Senate hearing last month.... The United States identifies Wagner’s financer as Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch who is close to the Russian president and sometimes is called “ Putin’s chef" for his flashy restaurants favored by the Russian leader.... They pay for it by giving Russia prime access to their oil, gas, gold, diamonds and valuable minerals. Russia also gains positions on a strategically important continent....

Russian bodyguards protect President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, and a former Russian spy has served as his security adviser. Although Russian officials say they have never had more than 550 trainers in the country, U.N. investigators found the figure was sometimes as high as 2, 100 personnel.... Putin and was indicted in the United States in 2019 on charges of financing “ information warfare ” and disrupting the 2016 American election. The abuses covered in the U.N. report, to be released this

Stephen Townsend, the commander of U.S. armed forces in Africa, told a Senate hearing last month.... The United States identifies Wagner’s financer as Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch who is close to the Russian president and sometimes is called “ Putin’s chef" for his flashy restaurants favored by the Russian leader.... They pay for it by giving Russia prime access to their oil, gas, gold, diamonds and valuable minerals. Russia also gains positions on a strategically important continent....

Read ourprivacy notice Thanks for signing up to theInside Washington email{{# verifyErrors}}{{ message}}{{/ verifyErrors}}{{^ verifyErrors}} Something went wrong.... Please try again later{{/ verifyErrors}} The Central African Republic went to the polls Sunday in a highly anticipated vote on a new constitution, which would remove presidential term limits.... If the new constitution is passed, it could entrench the ruling party’s power indefinitely, analysts say....

LIBREVILLE: In the Central African Republic( CAR), nine out of 10 people do not have Internet, and only one in seven has electricity – that is, when there are no power cuts. Yet the CAR has just followed El Salvador in adopting bitcoin as legal tender, a currency that requires access to the Net to be bought, sold or used. Foreign experts and CAR citizens themselves are struggling to understand why the world’s second least developed economy has announced this leap into monetary hyperspace. Among

On April 19, 2018, US President Donald Trump signed two new documents on the export of conventional weapons and UAVs to foreign countries. These documents mean considerable simplification of the arms trade.