French troops have deployed tanks around the presidential palace in the capital Bangui shortly after the resignations of the president and the premier of the Central African Republic.

The president of the Central African Republic has offered amnesty for militias in exchange for disarmament in a bid to stop violence in the crisis-hit country.

The president of the Central African Republic (CAR) has expressed readiness to hold talks with militias in a bid to stop violence in the crisis-hit country.

France has started military operations in the Central African Republic (CAR) with French soldiers patrolling in the country’s capital, Bangui.

The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) has rejected warnings that the strife-torn country may be headed for genocide.

The World Food Program (WFP) has warned that 20 percent of the population in the Central African Republic is at the risk of hunger and starvation due to meager harvests and unending violence.

Almost 40 people have been killed in fighting between former Seleka rebels and armed vigilantes in the Central African Republic (CAR), army sources say.

Former rebels of the Seleka coalition have launched an attack against security forces dispatched to the northwest of the Central African Republic (CAR) following clashes that killed 50 people earlier, an official says.

At least 30 people have been killed and many others injured in the Central African Republic (CAR) in clashes between former rebels of the Seleka coalition and local groups, a security source says.

The U.N. Security Council is planning to vote this week on a draft resolution that would urge the United Nations to explore the possibility of establishing a U.N. peacekeeping force in Central African Republic, diplomats said on Tuesday.

The United Nations says 170,000 people have been displaced in recent fighting in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Conflicts in small countries are often made worse by international indifference. In the case of the Central African Republic (CAR), however, the problem is a little different. There is a substantial international presence in the country, but the main actors are adopting a wait-and-see attitude rather than pro-actively engaging with the crisis.

The Seleka, a coalition of rebel groups that took power in the Central African Republic (CAR) in March, shoots, loots and rapes with "complete impunity," Human Rights Watch has said.

Reinforcements have begun arriving for an African peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic

The president of the Central African Republic (CAR), Michel Djotodia, has ordered the dissolution of the Seleka rebel coalition.

Nearly 70 people have been killed in clashes between troops of the new government in the Central African Republic (CAR) and fighters claiming loyalty to toppled president, Francois Bozizé.

Aid workers who carried out an emergency mission to the north of strife-torn Central African Republic found villages abandoned and burned, and evidence of widespread rights abuses, the UN refugee agency said Friday.

Thousands of protesters descended on the Central African Republic's capital Monday to call for peace in the strife-torn country, which has been beset by reports of widespread rape and violence since a March coup.

The Central African president on Wednesday ordered warlords from his former rebellion to give up their fiefdoms in the capital Bangui and African troops moved in to subdue recalcitrant armed groups.

The rebels invaded on stolen motorcycles at 5 a.m., shooting into the air to announce their arrival in the secluded village in Central African Republic.