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The Central African Republic Civil War is an ongoing civil war in the Central African Republic (CAR) involving the government, rebels from the Séléka coalition, and Anti-balaka militias.
An internal conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) started essentially on 13 April 2013, when the government of President Michel Djotodia officially took over. The fighting was between the government of the Central African Republic's former Séléka coalition of rebel groups, who are mainly from the Muslim minority, and the mainly Christian anti-balaka coalition.
[11] [12] The international media has shortened the full name Séléka CPSK-CPJP-UFDR to la Séléka in French and Seleka in English. The term Séléka had been used previously in CAR politics when Jean-Jacques Démafouth launched the political party New Alliance for Progress (French: Nouvelle Alliance pour le Progrès) with the Sango name Fini ...
The 1993 bombing both foreshadowed and was later overshadowed by the 9/11 attacks eight years later.
On 18 March 2013, the rebels, having taken over Gambo and Bangassou, threatened to take up arms again if their demands for the release of political prisoners, the integration of their forces into the national army and for South African soldiers to leave the country, were not met within 72 hours. [4]
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $1.68 billion judgment against Iran's central bank that had been won by family members of troops killed and injured in the 1983 bombing of the U.S ...
For decades, Victoria Cummock has awaited the day there was justice for her husband and the 269 other people who were killed in a terrorist attack in Europe.
Map of forces deployed in C.A.R. in 2014. Operation Sangaris was a French military intervention in the Central African Republic, from late 2013 till 2016.It was the seventh French military intervention there since the country gained independence from France in 1960. [4]