Central Africa – Newstime Africa

Circles of impunity: why sexual violence by humanitarians and peacekee...

October 9, 2021 no comments

Mukesh Kapila, University of Manchester I first visited the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1994 during the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. In Goma’s emergency hospita...

Thousands flee fresh clashes in Central African Republic: UN agency

April 21, 2021 no comments

NEW YORK – PRN Africa — According to the agency, new arrivals in Chad reported having fled clashes, as well as pillaging, extortion, and other acts of violence at the hands of rebel group...

New discoveries in Angola’s Prolific Basins fuel interest in ongoing b...

April 8, 2021 no comments

From deep-water commercial fields to onshore plays, Angola boasts a combined depth of resources and existing infrastructure that provide explorers with unparalleled opportunities in the upstream

CAR: a society without authority, where children’s schooling suf...

March 27, 2021 no comments

Marieke Hopman, Maastricht University The news from the Central African Republic (CAR) is rarely good. The country has been involved in an on-and-off war for at least 20 years. It has been rated as h...

Angola: African Development Bank funds $530 million electricity projec...

March 26, 2021 no comments

The project, once operational in 2023, will avert the consumption of 46.8 billion litres of diesel per year in the south, cutting 80 megatons of CO2 emissions ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, March 16, 2021/ &#...

Cameroon’s Biya is Africa’s oldest president: assessing hi...

March 26, 2021 no comments

Julius A. Amin, University of Dayton Cameroon’s President Paul Biya celebrated his 88th birthday recently, making him the oldest president in Africa. He has been in power for 38 years. Birthday celeb...

African Union welcomes DRC to African Peer Review Mechanism, urges oth...

March 26, 2021 no comments

The African Peer Review Mechanism is a voluntary mechanism that enables AU members to provide and submit to evaluation at local, national and continental levels ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, March 26, 2021/ ...

UN Human Rights Council 46: Interactive Dialogue on the human rights s...

March 24, 2021 no comments

LONDON, – PRN Africa – The UK’s International Human Rights Ambassador delivered this statement during the Interactive Dialogue on the human rights situation in the Central African R...