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Bodies in the morgue of the Hôpital Communautaire in Bangui. William Daniels—Panos Dec. 6, 2013. Bodies of Christians, including some anti-balaka fighters, in front of the National Assembly.
In Bangui before the violence between the city’s Muslim and Christian communities reached a crescendo in recent weeks, life was hardly easy in the first place. Unemployment and poverty are sky ...
Officials in the Central African Republic say a grenade attack on a funeral ceremony has killed 20 people and left another 11 wounded. The attack occurred about 11 p.m. Thursday night local time ...
Mohamed Bomassa was saved today by his baseball cap. “Pour la Paix” it reads, he holds it up for a photo. “This protected me,” he says, explaining that for a Muslim youth crossing Bangui ...
Joseph Bendounga (C), a local opposition leader, speaks to a crowd of people angered by an attack on a church in central Bangui, May 29, 2014.
BANGUI--Thousands of Muslims fled for their lives from the capital of Central African Republic on Friday, with Christian crowds cheering as the truckloads of Muslim families made their way out ...
BANGUI, Central African Republic — Dr. Jean Chrysostome Gody bounds down a stench-filled hallway in the Central African Republic’s only pediatric hospital, ...
At least 29 students have been killed and more than 250 injured in a stampede at a high school in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic.
BANGUI: The death toll from a stampede during high school exams in the Central African Republic has been lowered to 20, officials said Saturday, from an earlier count of 29. The stampede started ...
The girl was born in their makeshift shelter at Bangui airport on 13 April 2014. Peter Biro/IRC . A boy plays in an old abandoned Russian propeller airplane. Peter Biro/IRC .
BANGUI. An imam in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), claimed on Sunday that French troops had killed three Muslims.