Central African Republic

Discussions have begun in Bangui on the second review of the government's economic and financial program, supported by the Extended Credit Facility

There are now four community spaces at the Ngoandji, Mbrepou, MBagolo, and Kidjigra sites, created to support and protect victims of gender-based violence and inaugurated last month by Ministra for Gender Promotion, Women, Family and Children's Protection

A strategic committee was created to ensure the smooth functioning of the recruitment of young graduates into the public service, upon iniziative of Prime Minister Félix Moloua

The director of the Russian cultural centre, Dimitry Syty, former head of Wagner in Central Africa, returned to Bangui after months of absence, pictured in photographs at the ceremony commemorating Wagner mercenaries who fell in the field

About 10.000 children are still fighting alongside armed groups in the Central African Republic, more than ten years after the beginning of the civil war, as stated by Marthe Kirima, Minister of Family and Gender Affairs of the Central African government

Moscow delivered 50.000 tonnes of cereals to the Central African Republic as humanitarian food assistance to address food shortages in the country, also due to the influx of refugees from neighbouring Chad and Sudan

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra had talks with Pope Francis during his visit to the Vatican, focusing on the social, political and humanitarian situation and on strengthening international cooperation for the common good of the nation

25.000 tonnes of Russian free wheat arrived in Cameroon to be milled into wheat flour; the flour that will then be sent to the Central African Republic

The government has worked hard to ensure that free healthcare is not just a slogan, but a reality, as President of the Republic emphasised in his end-of-year address to the nation; the number of doctors in hinterland is at 122 in 2023, up from 27 in 2016

The project to support the paediatric hospital in Bangui was launched with Italian NGO Cuamm Doctors for Africa as the civil society organisation in charge of implementation and the United Nations Population Fund as the international partner agency

The Central African League for Human Rights denounced the violence of Wagner Group mercenaries and the inhuman treatment of local drivers working for the Russians, in a statement by the League's president, Joseph Bindoumi, interviewed by Deutsche Welle