VIDEO: CAR violence: The roots of the conflict

The numbers behind the world's sexual violence problem

The United Nation's high commissioner for refugees has called for an end to the "shocking" violence in the Central African Republic.

A new surge of violence is sweeping through the Central African Republic despite a ceasefire agreement between rival armed groups.

Deadly violence is expected to continue in the Central African Republic as presidential and parliamentary elections begin on Sunday 27 December.

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More Chadians flee the Central African Republic after being caught in the fighting there, joining thousands who have left in the past week.

At least two children are beheaded in the Central African Republic's capital Bangui as violence sinks to a "vicious new low", the UN children's charity Unicef says.

Pope Francis arrives in the Central African Republic, a country wracked by religious violence, on the last leg of his African tour.