The Latest Breaking News from Bangui

Hours after Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin rebelled against his country’s top military leaders, his private army’s biggest client in Africa panicked and turned for help to his foe in the West

A wooden ferry carrying over 300 passengers sank in the Mpoko River in Bangui, CAR. Rescue efforts are ongoing as the death toll rises, prompting calls for...

Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - Yaguina Nesly waits outside a hut whose walls of corrugated steel are daubed in green and white paint.

China's embassy in the Central African Republic has urged its citizens to avoid travelling outside the capital, Bangui, after a report that nine Chinese nationals were killed in an attack by militants at a gold mine outside the city.

Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - Camille fixes her gaze on her fingers, fidgeting with the hem of her dress.Her gestures are anxious, and her tender features betray her 15 years of age.

Focusing on a strip of countries from Mali to Sudan, it is challenging the west and opening what some call a ‘second front’

While Vladimir Putin desperately rallies support for his war in Ukraine, a network of paramilitary mercenaries known as the Wagner Group is shoring up his power in resource-rich central Africa, more than 5,000 kilometres away.

Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - A Russian representative in the Central African Republic was badly wounded Friday after opening a parcel bomb, Moscow's embassy said, as a prominent pro-Kremlin figure claimed France was behind the blast, which Paris denied.

Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - The head of the Russian cultural centre in the Central African Republic was badly wounded Friday after opening a parcel bomb, Moscow's embassy said, amid accusations France was behind the blast.