(Adds U.N. comment in paragraphs 5-7) By Serge Leger Kokpakpa BANGUI Nov 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people marched through the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, part of a growing campaign seeking to rearm an army that many distrust and which has been sidelined since rebels seize...

(Adds quote) BANGUI Dec 4 (Reuters) - Armed men in the Central African Republic killed eight civilians at a camp for displaced people and wounded one U.N. peacekeeper, just days after the pope visited the capital, the country's U.N. humanitarian coordinator said on Friday. The attacks took pla...

BANGUI Jan 7 (Reuters) - Central African Republic looks set for a run-off vote to elect a new president to try to end a cycle of Muslim-Christian violence after former prime minister Anicet Georges Dologuele topped the poll but fell short of a majority. Dologuele won 23.78 percent of votes, follo...

In summary, close to 9,000 civilians were displaced during the reporting period (almost the double of last week's figure of new IDPs). Marka and the outskirts of Mogadishu are now major places of new displacement. IDPs in these locations are in need of assistance.

* Around 1.5 million voters to be excluded * Presidential elections scheduled for February 21 * Candidate returns after Ouagadougou arrest (Adds comments, detail) By Abdoulaye Massalaki NIAMEY, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Nearly a quarter of Niger's potential voters - 1.5 million people - will be...

(Adds quote from Deby spokesman) N'DJAMENA, April 21 (Reuters) - Chad's incumbent president, Idriss Deby, an important ally of the West in the fight against Islamist militants, won a fifth term in office in a lopsided first-round victory, the Central African country's elections commission announc...