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French police report multiple sabotage acts targeting telecommunications operators in parts of the country, affecting 11,000 clients, with the incidents being treated as vandalism.
2024-07-29

French agriculture minister Julien Denormandie announces the declaration of a national "agricultural disaster" in response to unseasonal spring frost. He says economic assistance will be made available to affected farms.
2021-04-8

A French nun is found decapitated in a village in the Central African Republic.
2019-05-22

While voters in Central African Republic cast their ballots in a constitutional referendum aimed at ending years of sectarian strife, clashes erupt in the capital Bangui's PK5 Muslim neighborhood, killing at least two and injuring over 20. PK5 residents, visited by Pope Francis two weeks ago, marched to the U.N. headquarters in the country to complain they were unable to cast their ballots. The proposed constitution would limit a president to two terms, add an upper house to go along with the National Assembly, and fight institutional corruption.
2015-12-13

French President François Hollande promises to investigate claims that French Army soldiers were involved in sexual child abuse in the Central African Republic.
2015-05-1

Russia and China have blocked a proposal by the United States and France to impose U.N. sanctions on Central African Republic's former President François Bozizé and two other people linked to the conflict.
2014-04-23

France announces it will increase the number of its soldiers deployed in the Central African Republic as sectarian violence worsens.
2014-02-14

France announces that it plans to intervene in the conflict in the Central African Republic.
2013-11-26

Forest fires in Catalonia, Spain kill four people, with fires also in France, Portugal and Romania.
2012-07-23

Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega is extradited home from France and the United States where he has been serving jail sentences for the past 22 years to serve more time for his role in the murder of political opponents.
2011-12-11