Sources: BBC News
Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas, the opposition presidential candidate, dies from COVID-19 on a plane en route to France for treatment, a day after the election. 2021-03-22
A French nun is found decapitated in a village in the Central African Republic. 2019-05-22
France puts the concern on the E.U. Ecofin agenda that the current version of the United States fiscal act would unduly penalize E.U. companies by taxing their U.S. operations beyond locally produced value added. 2017-12-4
Twelve Portuguese nationals, who were residents of Fribourg, Switzerland, are killed in a head-on collision between their minibus and a truck, on a highway 300 kilometers (185 miles) south of Paris, France. The only survivor from the bus is the driver; the two Italian occupants of the truck are slightly injured. 2016-03-25
With most of the votes counted, the opposition conservatives of former president Nicolas Sarkozy's party win in six of the country’s 13 regions and lead in the Paris region. The ruling Socialists of President François Hollande's party capture five regions. The winner in Corsica is not affiliated with a major party. France's far-right National Front (FN) fails to win a single region but did record its best showing in its history. Voter turnout was 58 percent. Definitive results are expected Monday. 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
African troops are to be deployed in Mali to fight alongside French and Malian soldiers within a week. 2013-01-15