Videographic illustrating flooding. Ten days of torrential rain in the Central African Republic have plunged swathes of the country underwater, creating a new emergency in one of the world’s poorest nations.VIDEOGRAPHICS
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Two teams confront each other on the dusty sports field, wielding roughly cut sticks to whack a homemade puck at high speed. For the middle-aged and beyond, the sight of this rugged game triggers distant memories, of happier times. The sport, known as ngbaba, is unique to the Central African Republic — and, almost like the embattled country itself, has been hauled back from near-death.
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In a makeshift tent, 43-year-old Congolese psychologist Mamie Nouria Meniko analyses the drawings of children suffering from PTSD in the Lazaré displaced persons’ camp. Families from the region are squeezed together here, having fled the abuses of armed groups. For Meniko, this method helps bridge the gap between children and adults.
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The ‘Broto’ horn is a traditional musical instrument, played in the Central African Republic by the ethnic group from which it derives its name. It is a practice that dates back years, but is also increasingly under threat, as the traditions that accompany it are gradually lost with the passing of time.
This week on Africa Weekly, we meet some of the Central African Republic’s “repats” who have managed to set up profitable livelihoods after returning to their country, despite it being one of the poorest in the world, and we track the growth of the African video gaming industry following the global success of a Cameroonian game.FOR SUBSCRIBERS OF AFRICA WEEKLY ONLY
The government of Central African Republic signs a peace deal in Bangui with the armed groups that control of most of the country. It is hoped that the accord will bring an end to a bloody, years-long conflict.
This week on Africa Weekly, we focus on Nigeria, where locally produced methamphetamines have become so popular that internal security is under threat as armed gangs vye for control of the market. And we follow the Travelling Digital Cinema in Central African Republic, where a small group of volunteers is roaming the conflict-ridden country to broadcast educational films on sensitive social issues.FOR SUBSCRIBERS OF AFRICA WEEKLY ONLY
Despite the outbreak of violence in the Central African Republic, a small group of volunteers is roaming the roads of the country, screening films in the most remote regions. In Bayanga, a pygmy region in the south-west of Central African Republic, where few people have ever seen a cinema screen, the Travelling Digital Cinema broadcasts educational films to sensitize people to contemporary societal issues.
After years of armed conflict in the Central African Republic, there are currently 1.5 million children, or two out of three children, who are in desperate need of humanitarian aid in the country, says UNICEF.
In northern Gabon, the equatorial forest is everywhere and many consider it dangerous… except Baka Pygmies, who know every nook and cranny. The Baka people are held in folklore to be Africa’s oldest inhabitants, living today in forests stretching from Gabon and Cameroon inland to the Congos and the Central African Republic.
A three-man crew of Russian journalists was killed in the Central African Republic, with colleagues saying they were shooting a film about mercenaries in the country. Local police say they may have fallen victim to a robbery. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9bgl
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Every Sunday, young people from all walks of life gather at Bangui’s “20,000 Places Stadium” in the Central African Republic to learn Capoeira and rebuild bonds that have been damaged by war and violence that has plagued their country for years.
Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker is claiming diplomatic immunity from ongoing bankruptcy proceedings in the UK on the basis that he is an ambassador for the Central African Republic.
International war crimes judges acquit former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba on appeal, overturning an 18-year sentence for war crimes committed in the Central African Republic in 2002-3. SOUNDBITE
There were several thousand of them before 2011, and only a hundred today, yet the Lord’s Resistance Army continues to claim victims in Obo, in the extreme southeast of the Central African Republic. Since the departure of US and Ugandan troops who considerably weakened Joseph Kony’s notorious militia, the LRA no longer encounters any resistance.
This week on Africa Weekly, we travel to Nigeria where over 30,000 Cameroonians from English-speaking regions have fled regime repression, we meet the Congolese seeking refuge in neighbouring Uganda, and we go to Central African Republic where, in a country of thousands of ethnic groups gripped by conflict, dance is proving a unifying force. FOR SUBSCRIBERS OF AFRICA WEEKLY ONLY
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The Central African Republic’s cycling federation is struggling to survive in the war-torn country. But the hopes of Bangui’s youth are riding on a revival of the competitive sport.
The Central African Republic’s cycling federation is struggling to survive in the war-torn country. But the hopes of Bangui’s youth are riding on a revival of the competitive sport. A voiced AFPTV report
Bambari, a town in the Central African Republic, was at the heart of an armed conflict which caused thousands of casualties. Now that a relative peace has come, some former fighters are trying to reintegrate into civilian life, thanks to a FAO post-conflict reintegration program. But there’s no certainty about their future.
This week on Africa Weekly, following a recent spate in political killings, we go to one of South Africa’s estates notorious for housing hit men, we meet a foreign fighter turned farmer as the Central African Republic struggles to recover from its five-year conflict, and we travel to Uganda, where programmers are teaching coding to young people in low income, rural communities.FOR SUBSCRIBERS OF AFRICA WEEKLY ONLY
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrives in the Central African Republic to assess the country’s fragile security situation as violence between militias threatens to intensify. IMAGES
The World Food Programme warns that violence in Central African Republic has reached a point not seen since 2014, when violence between armed groups began. The unrest has displaced more than half a million people across the country – more than at any time since the clashes began.
The UN has been urging lawmakers in the Central African Republic to take action as conflict rages throughout the country, with rebel groups trying to unseat the government. Sixty people have been killed over the past month, but some peacekeepers have already ended their mission, hailing it as a success. Tumelo Mothotoane has more on France’s departure from the troubled country.
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New allegations have emerged of sex abuses by French peacekeepers in the Central African Republic.
That’s after Sputnik news agency travelled to the country to gather testimonies from witnesses on the ground.
France sent more than a thousand troops to its former colony in 2013, in a bid to quell an uprising by Muslim rebels.
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