ARTICLES RELATING TO
CENTRAL AFRICA
Authorities in Chad have arrested a suspected member of a poaching gang accused of slaughtering nearly 200 elephants and killing five Cameroonian park ranger, an official says.
A crucial preliminary hearing of evidence against an African warlord known as "The Terminator" has been pushed back to give prosecutors more time to prepare their case, the ICC says.
Sixteen Rwandan students are seeking asylum in Uganda, saying they are the victims of harassment by security officials back home for refusing to join the Congolese rebel group M23.
At least 16 people have been killed during clashes between rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army and villagers in Central African Republic.
The 15-country Southern Africa Development Community has called on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to delay elections scheduled for 31 July.
A rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now accusing the government of refusing to negotiate at recently-reconvened peace talks in Uganda's capital.
An armed tribal movement burned 16 people alive in a house during a 1 June attack on a village in the Katanga province of the DRC, the UN sources say.
The new military chief of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC vowed to crack down on killing, rape and forced recruitment by armed groups terrorising the country.
A total of 93 charges of misconduct have been brought against members of South Africa's peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the defence department says.
German prosecutors have charge 3 with membership of ethnic Hutu militia involved in Congo killings.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appointed the United Nations' top envoy in Iraq as the new special representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The M23 militia in DRC is attempting to recapture a group of 53 child soldiers who recently escaped the militia's grasp.
Fighters loyal to the Central African Republic's new government killed five rebels near the Cameroon border, a military source says, adding that their leader escaped the weekend attack on horseback.
A UN-mandated diamond watchdog has confirmed the Central African Republic's suspension from global certified diamond trading after a coup in March.
Central African Republic's toppled president Francois Bozize has abandoned his attempt to fly to South Africa from his home in exile in Cameroon.
