Calls for inquiry into UN peacekeepers’ role in massacres in Central African Republic
World Watch Monitor United Nations peacekeepers failed in protecting civilians in the Central African Republic during an attack in November that killed as many as 100 people, among them two priests, according to a report by Amnesty International published 14th December. Multiple eyewitnesses told Amnesty that UN peacekeepers did not stop armed men believed to be members of a […]
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”…
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: WHERE GOVERNMENT WRIT ONLY RUNS IN THE CAPITAL
In an article first published by World Watch Monitor, ILLIA DJADI writes a first person account of his recent visit to the Central African Republic where he says there is once again a “sense of emergency” amid a deteriorating security situation…