The United Nations will send an extra contingent of troops to the Central African Republic amid warnings that lack of international support would leave the country at a real risk of ethnic cleansing.

A record number of people - more than 1.1 million - have been uprooted in Central African Republic by spiraling violence between armed groups which threatens to plunge the country back into full-blown conflict, the United Nations said on Friday.

Amnesty International says the Central African Republic (CAR) has witnessed a "horrific surge" in violence that is now clearly along sectarian lines.

Three people have been killed in an attack by militants in the south of the Central African Republic, security forces say.

The United Nations has reported two new cases of child sexual abuse charges against its peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) as the world body continues an investigation into similar cases.

At least 10 people have been killed in northwest Central African Republic in an attack blamed by local security officials on the mainly Muslim Seleka militia and armed Fulani people.

The UN Security Council has threatened to impose a fresh round of sanctions to contain a recent wave of violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) that has claimed the lives of over 60 people.

September's violent clashes in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, have left more than 60 people dead and 300 others injured, an official says.

The United Nations (UN) says a recent wave of violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has claimed the lives of nearly 40 people, and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes.

Violent ethnic clashes in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), Bangui, have left more than 36 people dead and around 80 others injured.

Amnesty International has criticized a reform plan proposed by the UN to tackle sexual abuse by its peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR), saying the world body must give due punishment to the perpetrators of the crimes that could disgrace the UN.

A United Nations peacekeeper has been shot dead in the Central African Republic (CAR) during a firefight with gunmen.

Nearly a dozen armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) have signed a deal to disarm and to end a conflict which has killed thousands, the United Nations (UN) says.

One person has been killed and several others wounded when hundreds of protesters stormed a UN base in the Central African Republic (CAR), a UN spokesman says.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the United Nations peacekeepers are collaborating with the Central African Republic (CAR) in order to prevent hundreds of Muslims trapped in the country’s western region from leaving.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the humanitarian and security situation in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Anti-balaka militants in the Central African Republic (CAR) have called on the country’s president and prime minister to step down.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on all sides involved in the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) to put an immediate end to the violent clashes in the country.

A UN official says the number of crimes against aid workers in the Central African Republic (CAR) over the past year have reached an all-time high.

The new prime minister of the Central African Republic (CAR), Mahamat Kamoun, has vowed to reconcile the factions that are in conflict along ethnic and religious lines in the country.