Central African Republic

Belgian-Portuguese national Joseph Figueira Martin has been all but abandoned, banged up for 10 months in a Bangui military camp in the Central African Republic, awaiting trial on...

This year should be the year of elections in the Central African Republic. Local elections, already rescheduled four times, are due in July, with a general election following...

The regime of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra may have staved off the threat of a coup d’état – unlike neighbouring Gabon and three Sahelian states – but citizens complain...

The detention of 41-year-old aid worker Joseph Figueira Martin at Camp de Roux in Bangui shows the power of Russia’s security services over President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s government and...

Russian mercenaries no longer openly roam the streets of Bangui by day as in the Wagner Group's heyday, but they still pluck President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's opponents from the...

The United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, ambassadors in Bangui, the Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and a slew of regional bodies met on 23...

President Emmanuel Macron is leading an international effort, including Rwanda and the UN – with growing United States support – to lift the pressure on President Faustin-Archange Touadéra...

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, who was previously thought to be bowing to French and western pressure to sever or curtail relations with the Wagner Group of mercenaries, appears now...

President Faustin Archange Touadéra is at the centre of complex plotting by western countries, led by President Emmanuel Macron, Central African Republic's neighbours, and international financial institutions as...

South Africa has just ended a government subsidy set up by President Jacob Zuma for Central African Republic to run an embassy in Pretoria. Until November, South Africa...