Child labour: Pandemic pushes more young vendors onto Central African Republic’s streets
INES KPAKOLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerabated the issue of child labour in the Central African Republic…
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: AS SUDAN HOSTS PEACE TALKS, RUSSIA OFFERS TO GET MORE INVOLVED
The World Watch Monitor reports…
Film shows art of survival in Central African Republic airport’s ‘tent city’
Yaounde, CameroonThomson Reuters Foundation Tens of thousands of people who fled murderous gangs and set up their own “tent city” inside Central African Republic’s main airport are the unlikely stars of an award-winning new film. Zone III – selected as the best short documentary at the African Film Festival in the United States in July and now […]
Central African Republic in mourning again as another priest killed
World Watch Monitor The Catholic Church in the Central African Republic is again in shock after the killing of the vicar general of Bambari, in the centre of the country, on Friday night. Father Firmin Gbagoua, 52, was fatally wounded, when unidentified gunmen stormed the presbytery of St Joseph’s Cathedral of Bambari at around 7pm. […]
CAR’s clerics warn against attempts to divide Christians and Muslims
World Watch Monitor The three top faith leaders of the Central African Republic, who have won international recognition for their efforts to end conflict in the country, have blamed foreign mercenaries for a recent upsurge in violence. One month ago today, the relative calm enjoyed by the capital, Bangui, was shattered when armed men from […]
AFRICA: CAR CARDINAL CALLS FOR AN END TO RETALIATORY VIOLENCE AFTER SHOOT-OUT AT MASS
ILLIA DJADI, of World Watch Monitor, reports on how Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, the Archbishop of Bangui, is leading calls for people in the Central African “to come out of this vicious circle of retaliation, revenge and hatred”…
At least 15 killed in Central African Republic church attack
At least 15 people including a priest have reportedly been killed and scores more wounded in an attack on a church in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui. Gunmen stormed the Notre-Dame de Fatima church – located in a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood – during Mass on Tuesday, firing guns and using grenades. Moses Aliou, a […]
Central African Republic: The scars that don’t heal – Bangui pastor recalls church shelling
ILLIA DJADI reports from the CAR’s capital five years after a devastating attack on a church in which seven died and 30 others were injured…
Dozens killed in Central African Republic attack, including priest who planned to move
World Watch Monitor Dozens, including a Catholic priest, were killed last week as fighting erupted between armed groups in several villages in southern Central African Republic. Father Joseph Désiré Angbabata, 49, the parish priest of Séko village, near Bambari, lost his life when armed men stormed his village parish of Saint Charles LWANGA on 21st […]
Church elder among six aid workers hacked to death in Central African Republic
World Watch Monitor In August 2017, ten Red Cross workers were massacred in an attack attributed to ex-Séléka militants in the south-eastern town of Gambo. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor A church elder who worked for UNICEF was one of six people killed during a recent ambush by armed men in northern Central African Republic. Gabriel […]