Sources: BBC News
Six people are killed, two are missing and five more injured after a gas explosion causes two buildings to collapse in Marseille, France. 2023-04-9
A French nun is found decapitated in a village in the Central African Republic. 2019-05-22
Russia and China veto a draft United Nations Security Council resolution sponsored by France, the United Kingdom and the United States calling for sanctions against the Syrian government and President Bashar al-Assad over allegations that the government used chemical weapons in the conflict. 2017-03-1
A Swiss Boeing F-A-18 military jet crashes in France while on a training mission, injuring the pilot. The Swiss defense ministry has said it did not know what caused the accident. 2015-10-14
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
The French Senate approves same-sex marriage in France putting the bill on track to become law by summer. 2013-04-12
U.S. President Barack Obama authorizes the deployment of up to 100 American soldiers to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assist in operations against the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency. 2011-10-14