Central African Republic

"We equipped ourselves to react to the system, we organized ourselves to react," U.N. Under Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix told Newsweek. He warns, however, "we're absolutely not out of the woods."

"We took a good, bitter lesson from what happened in Rwanda, and we said this should never happen," Smail Chergui, African Union commissioner for peace and security, told Newsweek.

The State Department has classified these 11 nations as "Do not travel."

Meet the women who chose to take up arms in one of Africa's most bitter conflicts.

CAR is at risk of slipping back into full-blown conflict. The international community must not waver in its support.

Muslim and Christian militias have been engaged in tit-for-tat violence since 2013, but the situation has escalated in recent months.

Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony is rumored to have a hideout in the landlocked country, but Central African Republic has a civil war of its own.

The soldiers were based in Central African Republic and received assistance from U.S. special advisers in hunting the warlord.

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The rebel group made unconfirmed claims that three civilians were also killed.

Will the homeless kids of the Central African Republic be pulled back into the country's simmering conflict?

Two ex-factions of the mainly Muslim Séléka rebel coalition clashed in the country's remote north.

The country has been blighted by years of inter-religious violence.

World leaders are gathering support for the country at a Brussels conference Thursday.

France is pulling 2,000 troops out of the country as situation intensifies.

The U.N. mission has played a key role in stabilizing the war-torn country.

The International Criminal Court gives Jean-Pierre Bemba 18 years for 2002-03 actions in Central African Republic.

Survivors of sexual violence in CAR are deprived of basic health care and stigmatized.

Those killed include a woman and children, whose remains were discovered in February.

Microsoft could have jeopardized Chinko Project's missions and even lives with automatic upgrades, says its pilot and IT expert.

The U.S. currently contributes about a quarter of the $8 billion budgeted for peacekeeping missions.

Troubling new allegations of sexual abuse and bestiality cast further scrutiny on the U.N.

The conflict-torn country recently elected a new president, who has pledged to disarm militant groups.

Kony's notorious militant group has kidnapped more than 200 people so far this year.

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Touadera is tasked with establishing peace in a country decimated by sectarian conflict.

One of the world's poorest countries will soon be led by an ex-banker or former maths professor.

The U.N.'s mission in CAR has uncovered a further seven alleged cases of sexual abuse and exploitation.

The conflict-torn country will find out on February 14 who its new leader is.

The allegations are the latest in a long line against peacekeepers and international forces in CAR.