More tragedy for Central African Republic’s peacekeeping cleric as son and grandson killed in latest violence
World Watch Monitor Rev Nicolas Guérékoyamé-Gbangou and his wife Priscilla, in a 2014 photo. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor A new flurry of violence has hit the Central African Republic, a country many hoped had turned a corner following the brutal civil war of 2013 and 2014. Among the victims of the latest violence were […]
‘Christian’ militias kill up to 30 Muslim civilians in Central African Republic
RNS/Reuters Hundreds of civilians are seeking refuge inside a mosque in the Central African Republic’s border town of Bangassou amid ongoing attacks by Christian militias that have killed up to 30 civilians, UN officials and aid workers said on Sunday. The attacks throughout the weekend on the town of Bangassou on the Congolese border have […]
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: SCORES KILLED IN NEW OUTBREAKS OF VIOLENCE
After a period of relative calm in the Central African Republic, recent weeks have seen an increase in violence as, in the words of one church leader, the “old demons of reprisal attacks appear to be getting the upper hand again”. World Watch Monitor reports…