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A resident of Bambari stated that while the city was calm, residents were apprehensive of a second round of violence. [17] FACA and Wagner forces attacked Bambari between February 15 and 16 to recapture the city from the UPC. [18] The fighting began on the afternoon of February 15 with shelling of alleged UPC neighborhoods.
Corbeau News reported the deaths of about 10 people including the two police officers in the town. [10] The CAR Government stated on Twitter that 20 militants had been killed and 15 were wounded, [ 12 ] the leader of the rebels, General Bellow was wounded during the fighting according to an internal U.N. report.
The Wagner Group, also known as PMC Wagner, [1] a Russian paramilitary organization [1] also described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, [1] [2] and a de facto unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) or Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, [3] has conducted operations in the Central African Republic since late 2018.
A local fighter who works with Wagner asserted that he saw six of the Russians rape a local woman in the tent where he was sleeping at their base in Bambari in early 2023.
"Black Russian" with severed head of Didier Wangay, former mayor of Bambari and UPC general. On 11 December 2021 they attacked Goya village near Kouango killing 10 civilians. [3] On 25 December 18 people were killed and 29 injured by pro-government faction of Anti-balaka in Lougba and Mandjo village on Bambari-Bakala axis. [4]
An American man who identified himself as Missourian Travis Timmerman speaks with CBS News' Elizabeth Palmer in Syria, Dec., 12, 2024. / Credit: CBS News/Agnes Reau
Otiri and Omot fled from Gambella across the border of South Sudan before heading to the Gorom Refugee Camp, a settlement of Anuak who fled violence in Ethiopia. ‘Friend Of The System’ The World Bank has long made Ethiopia a top priority, funneling loans to its government to help the East African nation of some 90 million people move past ...
Anti-balaka militias stormed the Peuhl camp in Batobadja on 20 December 2014 and killed ten people, including seven ex-Séléka fighters, two civilians, and one Anti-balaka member. Fourteen houses were torched down and several injured civilians were transported to Bambari.