Christian Militias In The CAR Give Muslims A Choice: Convert Or Die

As the world continues to focus on the menace posed by ISIS, Muslims are dying and losing their cultural identity in the Central African Republic.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
In this Aug. 28, 2014 photo, Saidou Bouba, stands for a photo in Boda, Central African Republic. Bouba, a Muslim, was attacked by the Anti Balaka, his entire family was wiped out and he received several machete wounds but survived. As U.N. peacekeepers prepare to go into the Central African Republic to take over a regional mission, the death toll since fighting between Muslims and Christians started in December underscores how the aid is coming too late for thousands of victims.

BANGUI, Central African Republic --- Despite assurances from United Nations observers that the situation is improving in the Central African Republic, ethnic cleansing, looming civil war and widespread unrest continue to create suffering, especially for the nation’s oppressed Muslim population. Conflict has raged in the CAR since March 2013,

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World Ignores Genocide In Central African Republic Because It’s Not ISIS & There’s No Oil

“I find it difficult to believe that’s it’s not given more attention, but maybe it’s simply that the politics of the situation don’t serve the interests of those shaping what we see,” a journalist tells MintPress. “There’s a reason the crisis in CAR is known as the Forgotten Conflict.”

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Aminatou Bello a 24-year-old Muslim, who was attacked by Christian Anti-Balaka forces, lies on a bed in Boda, Central African Republic.

Aminatou Bello a 24-year-old Muslim, who was attacked by Christian Anti-Balaka forces, lies on a bed in Boda, Central African Republic. When the Seleka, a group of mostly Muslim rebels, led a successful coup in the Central African Republic in March 2013, one of the world’s poorest countries was plunged into turmoil as Christian militias

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The UN Is Aiming To Evacuate 19,000 Muslims Under Threat In Central African Republic

The Security Council began talks this week on a resolution to create a UN peacekeeping force, which could assume authority from the African Union on September 15.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Central African Republic Father's Sacrifice

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was trying to evacuate 19,000 Muslims urgently from Bangui and other parts of Central African Republic who are surrounded by anti-balaka Christian militia threatening their lives. Anti-balaka forces control major routes to and from Bangui as well as many towns and villages in the southwest, the UN refugee

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Fear Of Genocide Looms Over Central African Republic

Civilians are being targeted in what Amnesty International has called ethnic cleansing.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

Last week, a man was lynched at a public rally in Bangui, Central African Republic -- just moments after President Catherine Samba-Panza left the stage where she outlined plans for the national army to take over security from the international peacekeepers. Alleging the man was a rebel, the crowd stabbed him, kicked him to the ground and pelted him

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France Fights To Maintain Post-Colonial Influence In The Central African Republic

After their intervention in Mali, the French have considered it appropriate to redeploy their troops in Africa.

Magda Fahsi
By Magda Fahsi

BRUSSELS --- What made France suddenly decide to intervene in the Central African Republic, a few months after its intervention in Mali? The official reason given by the President François Holland when he announced his decision to send French soldiers to Africa for the second time in a few months was that they had “no other objective than to save

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