Long-awaited first trial of Special Criminal Court, set up in the Bangui 7 years ago to prosecute war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity committed since 2003, opened on Monday but was immediately postponed until 16 May

Judges at the ICC unsealed a 2018 sealed arrest warrant for Edmond Beina, a rebel accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity; he allegedly commanded 100-400 fighters responsible for extermination, rape and persecution of Muslims in early 2014

The country renewed its utmost commitment and friendship with the Kremlin administration with the erection of a monument in honour of the late Russian mercenary group leader Wagner Prigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitriy Utkin in Bangui

To achieve the desired goals in controlling the public procurement process, CAR will receive support from the World Bank, which will mainly concern the reform of the public procurement code and the introduction of digitisation in the process