List of Central African Republic-related topics

Communications in the Central African Republic

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Communications in the Central African Republic
Communications in the Central African Republic
- Postal System:Direction des services postaux de l’Office National des Postes et de l'Épargne is responsible for the postal service.-Telephone Network:...
.cf
.cf
.cf is the Internet country code top-level domain for the Central African Republic. It is administered by the Central African Society of Telecommunications....
List of people on stamps of Central African Republic
Socatel
Socatel
Socatel is the leading telecommunications and Internet service provider in the Central African Republic. The government owns 60% of its stock and France Câbles et Radio, an affiliate of France Telecom, 40%....

Central African culture

Coat of arms of the Central African Republic
Coat of arms of the Central African Republic
The coat of arms of the Central African Republic consists of a shield in the center, with two flags on its edges, and with a sun rising over the shield...
Flag of the Central African Republic
Flag of the Central African Republic
The flag of the Central African Republic was adopted on December 1, 1958. It was designed by Barthélemy Boganda, the first president of the autonomous territory of Oubangui-Chari, who believed that "France and Africa must march together." Thus he combined the blue, white and red of the French...
La Renaissance
La Renaissance
"'" is the national anthem of the Central African Republic, adopted upon independence in 1960. The words were written by the then Prime Minister, Barthélémy Boganda. The music was composed by Herbert Pepper, who also composed the national anthem of Senegal, ""....
Public holidays in the Central African Republic

Languages of the Central African Republic

Aja language
Fer language
Fer language
The Fer language, also Dam Fer or Fertit, one of several languages called Kara , is a Central Sudanic language spoken by some five thousand people in the northern Central African Republic near the Sudanese and Chadian borders, in the region known as Dar Runga.While the Ethnologue lists it as...
Gbaya language
Gbaya language
The Gbaya languages, or Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka, are a group of perhaps a dozen Ubangian languages spoken mainly in the Central African Republic, and to a lesser extent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon...
Makaa–Njem languages
Sango language
Sango language
Sango is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic: it has approximately 1,600,000 second-language speakers, but only about 404,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.- Classification :...

Sport in the Central African Republic

Football in the Central African Republic

Central African Republic national football team
Central African Republic national football team
The Central African Republic national football team, nicknamed Les Fauves, is the national team of the Central African Republic and is controlled by the Fédération Centrafricaine de Football. They are a member of CAF. Despite being traditionally one of the weakest teams in Africa and the world,...
Fédération Centrafricaine de Football
Fédération Centrafricaine de Football
The Fédération Centrafricaine de Football is the governing body of football in the Central African Republic. It was founded in 1961, affiliated to FIFA in 1963 and to CAF in 1965. The offices of the RCA are located in Bangui, the capital city...

Central African Republic at the Olympics

Central African Republic at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Central African Republic at the 1992 Summer Olympics
The Central African Republic competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.-Athletics:Men's 100m metres*Valentin Ngbogo* Heat — 10.79 Men's 400m Hurdles*Jacques Henri Brunet...
Central African Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Central African Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics
The Central African Republic competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.- Men :Track and road eventsField events- Women :Track and road events-References:*...
Central African Republic at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Central African Republic at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The Central African Republic competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-Archery:The nation's first and only appearance in Olympic archery resulted in a first round loss for its only archer.-Men's competition:...
Central African Republic at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Central African Republic at the 2004 Summer Olympics
The Central African Republic competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.The country also made its Paralympic Games début this year.-Athletics:Women's 100 metre hurdles:* Maria Joelle Conjungo - Round 1, 14.24 s...
Central African Republic at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Central African Republic at the 2008 Summer Olympics
The Central African Republic sent three competitors to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.- Athletics:- Boxing:...

Trade unions of the Central African Republic

Geography of the Central African Republic

Geography of the Central African Republic
Geography of the Central African Republic
The Central African Republic is a landlocked nation within the interior of the African continent. It is bordered by the countries of Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo. Much of the country consists of flat, or rolling plateau...
Adamawa Plateau
Adamawa Plateau
The Adamawa Plateau is a plateau region in west-central Africa stretching from south-eastern Nigeria through north-central Cameroon to the Central African Republic. The plateau was named after Fulani Muslim leader Modibo Adama. The part of the plateau that lies in Nigeria is more popularly known...
Demographics of the Central African Republic
Demographics of the Central African Republic
This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Central African Republic, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park
Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park
Manovo-Gounda St.Floris National Park is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Central African Republic prefecture Bamingui-Bangoran, near the Chad border. It was inscribed to the list of World Heritage Sites in 1988 as a result of the diversity of life present within it...
Tondou Massif

Cities in the Central African Republic

List of cities in the Central African Republic
Abiras
Abiras
Abiras is a city in the present Central African Republic.When the C.A.R. was still a French colony, named Haut-Oubangui and then Oubangui-Chari , Abiras was its capital from 1894 to 1906. It was then replaced by the present capital Bangui....
Alindao
Alindao
Alindao is a town and sub-prefecture located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Basse-Kotto. The town is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alindao...
Bambari
Bambari
Bambari is a town in the Central African Republic, lying on the Ouaka River. It has a population of 41,356 and is the capital of Ouaka prefecture...
Bangassou
Bangassou
Bangassou is a city in the south eastern Central African Republic, lying on the north bank of the Mbomou River. It has a population of 24,447 and is the capital of the Mbomou prefecture. It is known for its wildlife and its market and is linked by ferry to the Democratic Republic of Congo on the...
Bangui
Bangui
-Law and government:Bangui is an autonomous commune of the Central African Republic. With an area of 67 km², it is by far the smallest high-level administrative division of the CAR in area but the highest in population...
Baoro
Baoro
Baoro is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Nana-Mambéré....
Batangafo
Batangafo
Batangafo is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ouham at the confluence of Ouham River and its affluent Fafa.There is an airport in Bafangafo....
Berbérati
Berbérati
Berbérati is the third-largest city in the Central African Republic with a population of 76,918 . It is the capital of the Mambéré-Kadéï Prefecture. The city is situated in the south-west of the country near the border with Cameroon...
Bimbo, Central African Republic
Bimbo, Central African Republic
Bimbo is the capital of Ombella-M'poko, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It has a population of 124,176 .-References:...
Birao
Birao
Birao is the capital of Vakaga, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic and was an administrative post in the colony of Ubangui-Shari. In March 2007, the town was almost completely burnt down in the fighting between rebels and government troops in the area...
Boali
Boali
Boali is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ombella-M'Poko.Boali is noted for its waterfalls and for the nearby hydroelectric works. The Boali Waterfalls are 250 m wide and 50 m high, and are a popular tourist destination. The hydroelectric works, Boali I and Boali II,...
Boda
Bossangoa
Bossangoa
Bossangoa is the capital of Ouham, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. The town has a population of 36,478 . It is located 303 km north of the country's capital, Bangui...
Bossembélé
Bossembélé
Bossembélé is a small town in Yaloke-Bossembele, in the Ombella-M'Poko Prefecture of the Central African Republic, lying 157 miles north west of Bangui on the main road to Cameroon. It is known for its market and its nightlife and is home to a cinema and an airstrip. The Lambi Falls lie near the...
Bouar
Bouar
Bouar is a market town in the western Central African Republic, lying on the main road from Bangui to the frontier with Cameroon . The city has a population of 40,353, while the whole sous-préfecture has a population of 96,595 and is the capital of Nana-Mambéré prefecture...
Bouca
Bouca
Bouca is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ouham. It is not far east of Bossangoa at the Fafa river....
Bozoum
Bozoum
Bozoum is the capital of Ouham-Pendé, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic....
Bria
Bria
Bria is the capital of Haute-Kotto, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. In the 2003 census the town had a population of 35,204.See also: prefectures of the Central African Republic...
Carnot, Central African Republic
Carnot, Central African Republic
Carnot is a city located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mambéré-Kadéï. It has a population of 45,421 ....
Damara, Central African Republic
Damara, Central African Republic
Damara is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ombella-M'Poko....
Gambo, Central African Republic
Gambo, Central African Republic
Gambo is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mbomou....
Gamboula
Gamboula
Gamboula is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mambéré-Kadéï....
Ippy
Ippy
Ippy is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ouaka....
Kabo
Kabo
Kabo is a town in the northern Central African Republic, lying north west of Kaga Bandoro. It is a market town and the border post for Chad....
Kaga-Bandoro
Kaga-Bandoro
Kaga-Bandoro is a market town in the northern Central African Republic. It is situated 245km north of the capital Bangui and is the capital of the Nana-Grébizi economic prefecture. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaga–Bandoro....
Kembé
Kembé
Kembé is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Basse-Kotto.-External links:*http://www.travel-wonders.com/2009/02/real-africa-kembe-central-african.html...
Kouango
Kouango
Kouango is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ouaka....
Mbaïki
Mbaïki
Mbaïki is the capital of Lobaye, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It situated in the southwest of the country, 107 km from the capital Bangui. The economy is based on the coffee and timber industries. Lobaye people and Pygmy people live in the area. There is also a...
Mobaye
Mobaye
Mobaye is the capital of Basse-Kotto, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic.The town lies on the north bank of the Oubangui River. A dam in the town was constructed in the late 1990s. It is also linked to the Democratic Republic of Congo on the south bank by a bridge...
Mongoumba
Mongoumba
Mongoumba is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Lobaye....
N'Délé
N'Délé
N'Délé or Ndele is a market town and sub prefecture in the north eastern Central African Republic, lying east of the Bamingui-Bangoran National Park. Ndélé is the capital of Bamingui-Bangoran, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic....
Nola, Central African Republic
Nola, Central African Republic
Nola is the capital of Sangha-Mbaéré, an economic prefecture of the Central African Republic....
Obo
Obo
Obo is the capital of Haut-Mbomou, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. According to data used within Google Earth, the population is 12,787. It is close to the African Pole of Inaccessibility....
Ouadda
Ouadda
Ouadda is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Haute-Kotto....
Ouango
Ouango
Ouango is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mbomou....
Paoua
Paoua
Paoua is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ouham-Pendé. Paoua and its surrounding territories have become something of a ghost town after rebel and government soldier attacks in 2006 and 2007, with much of the population fleeing into the bush or into refugee camps. The...
Rafaï
Rafaï
Rafaï is a town on the Mbomou River, located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mbomou at . Its estimated population is about 14,000 people.Rafaï has a small civil airport with an unpaved 4,200 feet runway....
Sibut
Sibut
Sibut is the capital of Kémo, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. An important transport hub, it is situated 188km north of the capital Bangui and is known for its market and its nightlife, with renowned night clubs such as the 'Maison Blanche'.Sibut is located at the...
Zinga
Zinga
Zinga is a town on the Oubangui River in the Central African Republic. The town stretches roughly 1 km long and 300 m wide. It is known for its wooden buildings and as a ferry port, from which boats sail to Bangui and Brazzaville....

Maps of the Central African Republic

Maps of the Central African Republic

Prefectures of the Central African Republic

Prefectures of the Central African Republic
Prefectures of the Central African Republic
There are also two economic prefectures:The national capital, Bangui, comprises a commune which lies outside the prefectures.The prefectures are further subdivided into seventy-one sub-prefectures.-Sources:*...
Bamingui-Bangoran
Bamingui-Bangoran
Bamingui-Bangoran is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 58,200 km² and has a population of 38,437 . The population density of 0.66/km² is the lowest in the country...
Basse-Kotto
Basse-Kotto
Basse-Kotto is one of the 16 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Mobaye....
Haut-Mbomou
Haut-Mbomou
Haut-Mbomou is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Obo....
Haute-Kotto
Haute-Kotto
Haute-Kotto is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Bria. It is the largest prefecture in the Central African Republic....
Kemo-Gribingui
Kémo
Kémo
Kémo is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Sibut.Kemo is home to the rebel group Kemo People's Liberation Front . Not military in nature, KPLF has been involved with campaigns in the south of the province to limit the spread of HIV/AIDS in animist communities...
Lobaye
Lobaye
Lobaye is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Mbaïki. The prefecture is located in the southern part of the country, bordering the Congo Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
Mambéré-Kadéï
Mambéré-Kadéï
Mambéré-Kadéï is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. The prefecture covers 30,203 km² and has a population of 289,688 , giving a population density of less than 10 inhabitants/km². Its capital is Berbérati....
Mbomou
Mbomou
Mbomou is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 61,150 km² and has a population of 132,740 , giving a population density of only 2.2 inhabitants/km². The capital is Bangassou. Nearby are Kembe Falls on the River Kotto. The prefecture is governed by Mr....
Nana-Grébizi
Nana-Grébizi
Nana-Grébizi is one of the 2 economic prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 19,996 km² and has a population of 87,341 . The capital is Kaga Bandoro....
Nana-Mambéré
Nana-Mambéré
Nana-Mambéré is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 26,600 km² and has a population of 184,594 . The capital is Bouar. It was part of Kamerun where was a German colony between 1911–1916....
Ombella-M'Poko
Ombella-M'Poko
Ombella-M'Poko is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Bimbo....
Ouaka
Ouaka
Ouaka is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 49,900 km² and has a population of 224,076 , giving a population density of under 5 inhabitants/km². The capital is Bambari....
Ouham
Ouham
Ouham is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Bossangoa.-Geography:The prefecture is in the nord-west of the Central African Republic. In the north it has a border with the Chad. In the south is the prefecture Ombella-Mpoko, in the west the prefecture...
Ouham-Pendé
Ouham-Pendé
Ouham-Pendé is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Bozoum. The region contains several ghost towns such as Goroumo, Beogombo Deux and Paoua due to government forces ransacking them and armed bandits killing all the male inhabitants over the years from 2005 to...
Sangha-Mbaéré
Sangha-Mbaéré
Sangha-Mbaéré is one of the 2 economic prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Nola....
Vakaga
Vakaga
Vakaga is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 46,500 km² and has a population of 37,595 . The extremely low population density, less than 1 person/km², is a result of the capture of the majority of the region's inhabitants by slave-traders from the...

Rivers of the Central African Republic

Chari River
Chari River
The Chari or Shari River is a 949-kilometer-long river of central Africa. It flows from the Central African Republic through Chad into Lake Chad, following the Cameroon border from N'Djamena, where it joins the Logone River waters....
Kadéï River
Kadéï River
The Kadéï River is a tributary of the Sangha River that flows through Cameroon and the Central African Republic. Its total drainage basin is 24,000 km². The river rises from the eastern Adamawa Plateau, southeast of Garoua-Boulaï |East Province]]. The Kadéï is swelled by two tributaries, the...
Mbomou River
Mbomou River
The Mbomou River or Bomu forms part of the boundary between the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ....
Ouham River
Ouham River
The Ouham River is a river in Central Africa, and one of the main headwaters of the Chari River. The Ouham originates in the Central African Republic between the prefecture Nana-Mambéré and the prefecture Ouham-Pendé, crossing into Chad where it joins the Chari about 25 km north Sarh...
Sangha River
Sangha River
The Sangha River, a river in central Africa, is a tributary of the Congo River, which it joins at . Formed by the merging of the Mambéré River into the Kadéï River at Nola , the Sangha flows through the Central African Republic, along the border of Cameroon, and through the Republic of Congo.Its...
Ubangi River
Ubangi River
The Ubangi River , also spelled Oubangui, is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River of Central Africa. It begins at the confluence of the Mbomou and Uele Rivers and flows west, then bends to the southwest and passes through Bangui, after which it flows south to the Congo at Liranga....

Central African Republic geography stubs

Abiras
Abiras
Abiras is a city in the present Central African Republic.When the C.A.R. was still a French colony, named Haut-Oubangui and then Oubangui-Chari , Abiras was its capital from 1894 to 1906. It was then replaced by the present capital Bangui....
Adamawa Plateau
Adamawa Plateau
The Adamawa Plateau is a plateau region in west-central Africa stretching from south-eastern Nigeria through north-central Cameroon to the Central African Republic. The plateau was named after Fulani Muslim leader Modibo Adama. The part of the plateau that lies in Nigeria is more popularly known...
Alindao
Alindao
Alindao is a town and sub-prefecture located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Basse-Kotto. The town is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alindao...
Bambari
Bambari
Bambari is a town in the Central African Republic, lying on the Ouaka River. It has a population of 41,356 and is the capital of Ouaka prefecture...
Bamingui-Bangoran
Bamingui-Bangoran
Bamingui-Bangoran is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 58,200 km² and has a population of 38,437 . The population density of 0.66/km² is the lowest in the country...
Bangassou
Bangassou
Bangassou is a city in the south eastern Central African Republic, lying on the north bank of the Mbomou River. It has a population of 24,447 and is the capital of the Mbomou prefecture. It is known for its wildlife and its market and is linked by ferry to the Democratic Republic of Congo on the...
Baoro
Baoro
Baoro is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Nana-Mambéré....
Basse-Kotto
Basse-Kotto
Basse-Kotto is one of the 16 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Mobaye....
Batangafo
Batangafo
Batangafo is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ouham at the confluence of Ouham River and its affluent Fafa.There is an airport in Bafangafo....
Berbérati
Berbérati
Berbérati is the third-largest city in the Central African Republic with a population of 76,918 . It is the capital of the Mambéré-Kadéï Prefecture. The city is situated in the south-west of the country near the border with Cameroon...
Bimbo, Central African Republic
Bimbo, Central African Republic
Bimbo is the capital of Ombella-M'poko, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It has a population of 124,176 .-References:...
Birao
Birao
Birao is the capital of Vakaga, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic and was an administrative post in the colony of Ubangui-Shari. In March 2007, the town was almost completely burnt down in the fighting between rebels and government troops in the area...
Boali
Boali
Boali is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ombella-M'Poko.Boali is noted for its waterfalls and for the nearby hydroelectric works. The Boali Waterfalls are 250 m wide and 50 m high, and are a popular tourist destination. The hydroelectric works, Boali I and Boali II,...
Boda
Bossangoa
Bossangoa
Bossangoa is the capital of Ouham, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. The town has a population of 36,478 . It is located 303 km north of the country's capital, Bangui...
Bossembélé
Bossembélé
Bossembélé is a small town in Yaloke-Bossembele, in the Ombella-M'Poko Prefecture of the Central African Republic, lying 157 miles north west of Bangui on the main road to Cameroon. It is known for its market and its nightlife and is home to a cinema and an airstrip. The Lambi Falls lie near the...
Bouar
Bouar
Bouar is a market town in the western Central African Republic, lying on the main road from Bangui to the frontier with Cameroon . The city has a population of 40,353, while the whole sous-préfecture has a population of 96,595 and is the capital of Nana-Mambéré prefecture...
Bouca
Bouca
Bouca is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ouham. It is not far east of Bossangoa at the Fafa river....
Bozoum
Bozoum
Bozoum is the capital of Ouham-Pendé, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic....
Bria
Bria
Bria is the capital of Haute-Kotto, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. In the 2003 census the town had a population of 35,204.See also: prefectures of the Central African Republic...
Carnot, Central African Republic
Carnot, Central African Republic
Carnot is a city located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mambéré-Kadéï. It has a population of 45,421 ....
Chari River
Chari River
The Chari or Shari River is a 949-kilometer-long river of central Africa. It flows from the Central African Republic through Chad into Lake Chad, following the Cameroon border from N'Djamena, where it joins the Logone River waters....
Damara, Central African Republic
Damara, Central African Republic
Damara is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ombella-M'Poko....
Gambo, Central African Republic
Gambo, Central African Republic
Gambo is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mbomou....
Gamboula
Gamboula
Gamboula is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mambéré-Kadéï....
Haut-Mbomou
Haut-Mbomou
Haut-Mbomou is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Obo....
Haute-Kotto
Haute-Kotto
Haute-Kotto is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Bria. It is the largest prefecture in the Central African Republic....
Ippy
Ippy
Ippy is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ouaka....
Kabo
Kabo
Kabo is a town in the northern Central African Republic, lying north west of Kaga Bandoro. It is a market town and the border post for Chad....
Kaga-Bandoro
Kaga-Bandoro
Kaga-Bandoro is a market town in the northern Central African Republic. It is situated 245km north of the capital Bangui and is the capital of the Nana-Grébizi economic prefecture. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaga–Bandoro....
Kembé
Kembé
Kembé is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Basse-Kotto.-External links:*http://www.travel-wonders.com/2009/02/real-africa-kembe-central-african.html...
Kemo-Gribingui
Kémo
Kémo
Kémo is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Sibut.Kemo is home to the rebel group Kemo People's Liberation Front . Not military in nature, KPLF has been involved with campaigns in the south of the province to limit the spread of HIV/AIDS in animist communities...
Lobaye
Lobaye
Lobaye is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Mbaïki. The prefecture is located in the southern part of the country, bordering the Congo Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
Logon River
Logon River
The Logon or Logone River is a major tributary of the Chari River. The Logone's sources are located in the western Central African Republic, northern Cameroon, and southern Chad. It has two major tributaries. The Pendé River in the prefecture Ouham-Pendé in the Central African Republic and the...
Mambéré-Kadéï
Mambéré-Kadéï
Mambéré-Kadéï is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. The prefecture covers 30,203 km² and has a population of 289,688 , giving a population density of less than 10 inhabitants/km². Its capital is Berbérati....
Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park
Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park
Manovo-Gounda St.Floris National Park is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Central African Republic prefecture Bamingui-Bangoran, near the Chad border. It was inscribed to the list of World Heritage Sites in 1988 as a result of the diversity of life present within it...
Mbaïki
Mbaïki
Mbaïki is the capital of Lobaye, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It situated in the southwest of the country, 107 km from the capital Bangui. The economy is based on the coffee and timber industries. Lobaye people and Pygmy people live in the area. There is also a...
Mbomou
Mbomou
Mbomou is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 61,150 km² and has a population of 132,740 , giving a population density of only 2.2 inhabitants/km². The capital is Bangassou. Nearby are Kembe Falls on the River Kotto. The prefecture is governed by Mr....
Mbomou River
Mbomou River
The Mbomou River or Bomu forms part of the boundary between the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ....
Mobaye
Mobaye
Mobaye is the capital of Basse-Kotto, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic.The town lies on the north bank of the Oubangui River. A dam in the town was constructed in the late 1990s. It is also linked to the Democratic Republic of Congo on the south bank by a bridge...
Mongoumba
Mongoumba
Mongoumba is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Lobaye....
N'Délé
N'Délé
N'Délé or Ndele is a market town and sub prefecture in the north eastern Central African Republic, lying east of the Bamingui-Bangoran National Park. Ndélé is the capital of Bamingui-Bangoran, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic....
Nana-Grébizi
Nana-Grébizi
Nana-Grébizi is one of the 2 economic prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 19,996 km² and has a population of 87,341 . The capital is Kaga Bandoro....
Nana-Mambéré
Nana-Mambéré
Nana-Mambéré is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 26,600 km² and has a population of 184,594 . The capital is Bouar. It was part of Kamerun where was a German colony between 1911–1916....
Nola, Central African Republic
Nola, Central African Republic
Nola is the capital of Sangha-Mbaéré, an economic prefecture of the Central African Republic....
Obo
Obo
Obo is the capital of Haut-Mbomou, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. According to data used within Google Earth, the population is 12,787. It is close to the African Pole of Inaccessibility....
Ombella-M'Poko
Ombella-M'Poko
Ombella-M'Poko is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Bimbo....
Ouadda
Ouadda
Ouadda is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Haute-Kotto....
Ouaka
Ouaka
Ouaka is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 49,900 km² and has a population of 224,076 , giving a population density of under 5 inhabitants/km². The capital is Bambari....
Ouango
Ouango
Ouango is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mbomou....
Oubangui-Chari
Oubangui-Chari
Oubangui-Chari, or Ubangi-Shari, was a French territory in central Africa which later became the independent Central African Republic . French activity in the area began in 1889 with the establishment of an outpost at Bangui, now the capital of CAR. The territory was named in 1894.In 1903, French...
Ouham
Ouham
Ouham is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Bossangoa.-Geography:The prefecture is in the nord-west of the Central African Republic. In the north it has a border with the Chad. In the south is the prefecture Ombella-Mpoko, in the west the prefecture...
Ouham River
Ouham River
The Ouham River is a river in Central Africa, and one of the main headwaters of the Chari River. The Ouham originates in the Central African Republic between the prefecture Nana-Mambéré and the prefecture Ouham-Pendé, crossing into Chad where it joins the Chari about 25 km north Sarh...
Ouham-Pendé
Ouham-Pendé
Ouham-Pendé is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Bozoum. The region contains several ghost towns such as Goroumo, Beogombo Deux and Paoua due to government forces ransacking them and armed bandits killing all the male inhabitants over the years from 2005 to...
Paoua
Paoua
Paoua is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Ouham-Pendé. Paoua and its surrounding territories have become something of a ghost town after rebel and government soldier attacks in 2006 and 2007, with much of the population fleeing into the bush or into refugee camps. The...
Rafaï
Rafaï
Rafaï is a town on the Mbomou River, located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mbomou at . Its estimated population is about 14,000 people.Rafaï has a small civil airport with an unpaved 4,200 feet runway....
Sangha River
Sangha River
The Sangha River, a river in central Africa, is a tributary of the Congo River, which it joins at . Formed by the merging of the Mambéré River into the Kadéï River at Nola , the Sangha flows through the Central African Republic, along the border of Cameroon, and through the Republic of Congo.Its...
Sangha-Mbaéré
Sangha-Mbaéré
Sangha-Mbaéré is one of the 2 economic prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Nola....
Sibut
Sibut
Sibut is the capital of Kémo, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. An important transport hub, it is situated 188km north of the capital Bangui and is known for its market and its nightlife, with renowned night clubs such as the 'Maison Blanche'.Sibut is located at the...
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Tondou Massif
Ubangi River
Ubangi River
The Ubangi River , also spelled Oubangui, is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River of Central Africa. It begins at the confluence of the Mbomou and Uele Rivers and flows west, then bends to the southwest and passes through Bangui, after which it flows south to the Congo at Liranga....
Vakaga
Vakaga
Vakaga is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 46,500 km² and has a population of 37,595 . The extremely low population density, less than 1 person/km², is a result of the capture of the majority of the region's inhabitants by slave-traders from the...
Zinga
Zinga
Zinga is a town on the Oubangui River in the Central African Republic. The town stretches roughly 1 km long and 300 m wide. It is known for its wooden buildings and as a ferry port, from which boats sail to Bangui and Brazzaville....

Government of the Central African Republic

Foreign relations of the Central African Republic
Foreign relations of the Central African Republic
President François Bozizé says that one of his priorities is to get the support of the international community". This has indeed been visible in his relations to donor countries and international organisations...
Heads of government of the Central African Republic (and Central African Empire)
Heads of government of the Central African Republic (and Central African Empire)
This is a complete list of the heads of government of the Central African Republic and Central African Empire. There have been 21 heads of government of Central African Republic and the Central African Empire. The office of Prime Minister, the head of government, was created when the Central...
Heads of state of the Central African Republic (and Central African Empire)
Heads of state of the Central African Republic (and Central African Empire)
This is a complete list of the heads of state of the Central African Republic and Central African Empire. There have been five heads of state in the history of the Central African Republic and Central African Empire since independence was obtained from the French on 13 August 1960...
Military of the Central African Republic
Military of the Central African Republic
The Forces armées centrafricaines are the armed forces of the Central African Republic, established after independence in 1960. Today they are a rather weak institution, dependent on international support to hold back the enemies in the current civil war...
National Assembly of the Central African Republic
National Assembly of the Central African Republic
The unicameral National Assembly of the Central African Republic is the country's legislative body.The current National Assembly, formed following elections held on 13 March and 8 May 2005, has a total of 105 members elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system...

History of the Central African Republic

History of the Central African Republic
History of the Central African Republic
-Early history:The Central African Republic is believed to have been settled from at least the 7th century on by overlapping empires, including the Kanem-Bornu, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, and Dafour groups based on the Lake Chad region and along the Upper Nile...
Central African Empire
Central African Empire
The Central African Empire was a short-lived, self-declared autocratic monarchy that replaced the Central African Republic and was, in turn, replaced by the restoration of the republic. The empire was formed when Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the republic, declared himself Emperor Bokassa I on...
Colonial heads of Central Africa
Colonial heads of Central Africa
-List of the Colonial Heads of Upper Oubangui and the region becoming the Central African Republic:...
French Congo
French Congo
The French Congo was a French colony which at one time comprised the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Central African Republic...
French Equatorial Africa
French Equatorial Africa
French Equatorial Africa or the AEF was the federation of French colonial possessions in Middle Africa, extending northwards from the Congo River to the Sahara Desert.-History:...
Heads of government of the Central African Republic (and Central African Empire)
Heads of government of the Central African Republic (and Central African Empire)
This is a complete list of the heads of government of the Central African Republic and Central African Empire. There have been 21 heads of government of Central African Republic and the Central African Empire. The office of Prime Minister, the head of government, was created when the Central...
Oubangui-Chari
Oubangui-Chari
Oubangui-Chari, or Ubangi-Shari, was a French territory in central Africa which later became the independent Central African Republic . French activity in the area began in 1889 with the establishment of an outpost at Bangui, now the capital of CAR. The territory was named in 1894.In 1903, French...

Elections in the Central African Republic

Elections in the Central African Republic
Elections in the Central African Republic
Elections in the Central African Republic gives information on election and election results in the Central African Republic.The Central African Republic elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people...
Central African Republic elections, 2005
Central African Republic elections, 2005
Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in the Central African Republic on March 13, 2005 and May 8, 2005 , marking the end of the transitional process that began with the seizure of power by François Bozizé in a March 2003 coup...

Central African politicians

Bernard Ayandho
Bernard Ayandho
Bernard Christian Ayandho was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 26 September 1979 to 22 August 1980....
Barthélemy Boganda
Barthélemy Boganda
Barthélemy Boganda was the leading nationalist politician of what is now the Central African Republic. Boganda was active prior to his country's independence, during the period when the area, part of French Equatorial Africa, was administered by France under the name of Oubangui-Chari...
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Jean-Bédel Bokassa , a military officer, was the head of state of the Central African Republic and its successor state, the Central African Empire, from his coup d'état on 1 January 1966 until 20 September 1979...
Simon Narcisse Bozanga
Simon Narcisse Bozanga
Simon Narcisse Bozanga was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 4 April 1981 to 1 September 1981, when his government was overthrown by a military coup. Before serving as Prime Minister, Bozanga was Ambassador to Gabon from 1978 to 1979, and Minister of Justice from 1980 to...
François Bozizé
François Bozizé
François Bozizé Yangouvonda is the President of the Central African Republic. He came to power in March 2003 after leading a rebellion against President Ange-Félix Patassé and ushered in a transitional period of government...
David Dacko
David Dacko
David Dacko was the first President of the Central African Republic , from August 14, 1960 to January 1, 1966, and the third president of the CAR from September 21, 1979 to September 1, 1981...
Anicet Georges Dologuélé
Anicet Georges Dologuélé
Anicet Georges Dologuélé was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 4 January 1999 to 1 April 2001. He has been the President of the Development Bank of Central African States since 2001....
Elisabeth Domitien
Elisabeth Domitien
Elisabeth Domitien was prime minister of the Central African Republic from 1975 to 1976. She was the first and to date only woman to hold the position....
Élie Doté
Élie Doté
Élie Doté was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from June 2005 to January 2008.-Biography:Born in Bangui, Doté has a doctorate degree in rural economy and worked at the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Ministry from 1974 to 1980 before becoming an expert at the African Development...
Edouard Frank
Edouard Frank
Édouard Frank is a Central African magistrate and political figure. He was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 15 March 1991 to 4 December 1992.Frank presided over the 1986–1987 trial of former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa...
Célestin Gaombalet
Célestin Gaombalet
Célestin Leroy Gaombalet is a Central African politician who was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 2003 to 2005. He has been President of the National Assembly since 2005.-Biography:Gaombalet was born in the village of Grimari....
Michel Gbezera-Bria
Michel Gbezera-Bria
Michel Gbezera-Bria is a Central African politician who was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 1997 to 1999.-Biography:...
Abel Goumba
Abel Goumba
Abel Nguéndé Goumba was a Central African political figure...
André Kolingba
André Kolingba
André-Dieudonné Kolingba was the fourth president of the Central African Republic , from 1 September 1981 until 1 October 1993. He took power from President David Dacko in a bloodless coup d'état in 1981 and lost power to Ange-Félix Patassé in a democratic election held in 1993...
Gabriel Koyambounou
Gabriel Koyambounou
Gabriel Jean-Edouard Koyambounou is a Central African politician who was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 12 April 1995 to 6 June 1996. He is currently the First Vice-President of the Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People .Koyambounou was acquitted of misuse...
Enoch Derant Lakoué
Enoch Derant Lakoué
Enoch Derant Lakoué was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 26 February 1993 to 25 October 1993. He was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the August 1993 presidential election, receiving 2.39% of the vote, and again in the September 1999 presidential election,...
Jean-Pierre Lebouder
Jean-Pierre Lebouder
Jean-Pierre Lebouder was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 12 November 1980 to 3 April 1981.-References:...
Henri Maïdou
Henri Maïdou
Henri Maïdou was Prime Minister of the Central African Empire/Central African Republic from 14 July 1978 to 26 September 1979.- References :...
Timothée Malendoma
Timothée Malendoma
Timothée Malendoma was a Central African politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 4 December 1992 to 26 February 1993...
Jean-Luc Mandaba
Jean-Luc Mandaba
Jean-Luc Mandaba was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 25 October 1993 to 12 April 1995 under president Ange-Félix Patassé....
Charles Massi
Charles Massi
Charles Massi is a Central African politician. Massi served as a minister in the government of the Central African Republic during the 1990s and again from 2005 to 2008; he was also the President of the Democratic Forum for Modernity party from 1997 to 2008...
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé is a Central African politician. Born in Dékoa, Kemo-Gribingui, he was appointed as Prime Minister of the Central African Republic by President Ange-Félix Patassé on 6 June 1996 and resigned on 30 January 1997. Since then he has run for president of the Central African Republic...
Ange-Félix Patassé
Ange-Félix Patassé
Ange-Félix Patassé was a Central African politician who was President of the Central African Republic from 1993 until 2003, when he was deposed by the rebel leader François Bozizé...
Martin Ziguélé
Martin Ziguélé
Martin Ziguélé is a Central African politician who was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 2001 to 2003...
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Central African sportspeople

Romain Sato
Romain Sato
Romain Guessagba-Sato-Lebel, generally known as Romain Sato , is a Central African professional basketball player, who currently plays for Panathinaikos. He plays as a swingman.-Amateur career:...

See also:

:Category:Central African athletes
:Category:Central African footballers
:Category:Olympic competitors for the Central African Republic

Politics of the Central African Republic

Politics of the Central African Republic
Politics of the Central African Republic
Politics of the Central African Republic takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President is both head of state and head of government, with a separate executive Prime Minister. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the...
Foreign relations of the Central African Republic
Foreign relations of the Central African Republic
President François Bozizé says that one of his priorities is to get the support of the international community". This has indeed been visible in his relations to donor countries and international organisations...
National Assembly of the Central African Republic
National Assembly of the Central African Republic
The unicameral National Assembly of the Central African Republic is the country's legislative body.The current National Assembly, formed following elections held on 13 March and 8 May 2005, has a total of 105 members elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system...

Political parties in the Central African Republic

List of political parties in the Central African Republic
Alliance for Democracy and Progress
Alliance for Democracy and Progress
The Alliance for Democracy and Progress is a political party in the Central African Republic.In the election held on 13 March and 8 May 2005, its presidential candidate, Olivier Gabirault, won 0.8 % of the vote, and the party won two out of 105 seats in the National Assembly....
Central African Democratic Rally
Central African Democratic Rally
The Central African Democratic Rally is a political party in the Central African Republic. In the first round of the 2005 presidential election, held on 13 March, the party's candidate, André Kolingba, took 16.36% of the vote and third place. In the 2005 parliamentary election, the RDC won 8 out...
Central African Democratic Union
Central African Democratic Union
Central African Democratic Union , was a political party in the Central African Republic. UDC was installed by David Dacko in 1980 at a congress in March that year. Dacko claimed that UDC was the continuation of MESAN.-References:* O'Toole, Thomas. The Central African Republic: The Continent's...
Central African National Liberation Movement
Central African National Liberation Movement
Central African National Liberation Movement , was a political opposition movement in the Central African Republic. MCLN was led by Dr. Rodolphe Iddi Lala...
Democratic Evolution Movement of Central Africa
Democratic Evolution Movement of Central Africa
Democratic Evolution Movement of Central Africa was a political party in the Central African Republic led by Abel Goumba...
Democratic Forum for Modernity
Democratic Forum for Modernity
The Democratic Forum for Modernity is a political party in the Central African Republic. The party was founded by Charles Massi on 27 November 1997 and legally recognized on 4 May 1998....
Independent Grouping for Reflection
Independent Grouping for Reflection
Independent Grouping for Reflection , was a political party in the Central African Republic. GIR was led by François Pehoua, a former minister in the Bokassa cabinet. Pehoua was the GIR candidate in the 1981 presidential elections. GIR was generally based amongst bureaucrats and...
Löndö Association
Löndö Association
The Löndö Association is a political party in the Central African Republic.At the last elections, 13 March and 8 May 2005, the party won 1 out of 105 seats in the National Assembly....
MESAN
MESAN
The Mouvement pour l'évolution sociale de l'Afrique noire was a nationalist quasi-religious political party that sought to affirm black humanity and advocated for the independence of Ubangi-Shari, then a French colonial territory...
Movement for Democracy and Independence
Movement for Democracy and Independence
Movement for Democracy and Independence was a political party in the Central African Republic. MDI was led by François Gueret. Gueret had served in David Dacko's cabinet, but resigned. MDI was fiercely anti-Soviet and somewhat pro-China. In the 1981 presidential elections MDI nominated Gueret.-...
Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People
Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People
The Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People is a political party in the Central African Republic. It was established in Paris in 1979 by former prime minister Ange-Félix Patassé as a Central African opposition movement...
National Convergence "Kwa Na Kwa"
National Unity Party (Central African Republic)
National Unity Party (Central African Republic)
The National Unity Party is a political party in the Central African Republic.In the presidential election held on 13 March 2005, its candidate and leader, Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, won 5.08% of the vote. Ngoupandé had served as president from June 1996 to January 1997...
Patriotic Front for Progress
Patriotic Front for Progress
The Patriotic Front for Progress is a political party in the Central African Republic.The FPP strongly opposed President Ange-Félix Patassé. In 2002, the party suspended its participation in the opposition coalition....
Republican Progressive Party
Republican Progressive Party
Republican Progressive Party , was a political party in the Central African Republic. PPR was led by Henri Maidou, former prime minister in Bokassa's cabinet. Maidou was the PPR candidate in the 1981 presidential elections.Source: O'Toole, Thomas. The Central African Republic: The Continent's...
Social Democratic Party (Central African Republic)
Social Democratic Party (Central African Republic)
The Social Democratic Party is a political party in the Central African Republic.At the last elections, 13 March and 8 May 2005, the party won 4 out of 105 seats in the National Assembly....

Religion in Central African Republic

Islam in the Central African Republic
Islam in the Central African Republic
Islam accounts for approximately 10% of the population of the Central African Republic, making it the second most followed organized religion in the country after Christianity . Most Central African Muslims live in the north, near the border with predominantly Muslim Chad. -References:...
Roman Catholicism in the Central African Republic
Roman Catholicism in the Central African Republic
The Roman Catholic Church in the Central African Republic is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....

Central African society

Demographics of the Central African Republic
Demographics of the Central African Republic
This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Central African Republic, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
Fédération du scoutisme centrafricain
Public holidays in the Central African Republic

Ethnic groups in the Central African Republic

Baggara
Baggara
The Baggāra Arabs are a set of communities inhabiting the portion of Africa's Sahel between Lake Chad and southern Kordofan, numbering over one million. They have a common language which is one of the regional colloquial Arabic languages...
Baka (Cameroon and Gabon)
Baka (Cameroon and Gabon)
The Baka, known in the Congo as Bayaka , are an ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rainforests of Cameroon, northern Republic of Congo, northern Gabon, and southwestern Central African Republic. They are sometimes called a subgroup of the Twa, but the two peoples are not closely related...
Banda people
Banda people
Banda is an ethnic group of the Central African Republic, some of who also live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, and South Sudan....
Baya
Mandja
Mandja
The Mandja are an ethnic group in the Central African Republic. They number approximately 250,000....
Sara people
Sara people
The Sara are an ethnic group in Central Africa, who reside mostly in Chad, making up approximatively 30% of its southern population.-In Chad:...
Wodaabe
Wodaabe
The Wodaabe or Bororo are a small subgroup of the Fulani ethnic group. They are traditionally nomadic cattle-herders and traders in the Sahel, with migrations stretching from southern Niger, through northern Nigeria, northeastern Cameroon, and the western region of the Central African Republic....

African Pygmies

Aka people
Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon)
Ota Benga
Ota Benga
Ota Benga was a Congolese Mbuti pygmy known for being featured in a controversial human zoo exhibit at New York City's Bronx Zoo in 1906. Benga came to the United States through the action of businessman and missionary Samuel Phillips Verner...
Efé people
Pygmy
Pygmy
Pygmy is a term used for various ethnic groups worldwide whose average height is unusually short; anthropologists define pygmy as any group whose adult men grow to less than 150 cm in average height. A member of a slightly taller group is termed "pygmoid." The best known pygmies are the Aka,...
Pygmy music
Pygmy music
The Pygmies are a broad group of people who live in Central Africa, especially in the Congo, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. Music is an important part of Pygmy life, and casual performances take place during many of the day's events...
Twa peoples

Transport in the Central African Republic

Transport in the Central African Republic
Transport in the Central African Republic
- Railways :There are no railways in the Central African Republic.A line from Cameroon port of Kribi to Bangui was proposed in 2002.- Highways :In 2002, the country had 23,810 km of roads, of which only 429 km were paved...

Central African Republic stubs

Aja language (Nilo-Saharan)
Alliance for Democracy and Progress
Alliance for Democracy and Progress
The Alliance for Democracy and Progress is a political party in the Central African Republic.In the election held on 13 March and 8 May 2005, its presidential candidate, Olivier Gabirault, won 0.8 % of the vote, and the party won two out of 105 seats in the National Assembly....
Anicet Georges Dologuélé
Anicet Georges Dologuélé
Anicet Georges Dologuélé was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 4 January 1999 to 1 April 2001. He has been the President of the Development Bank of Central African States since 2001....
Barthelemy Boganda Stadium
Barthelemy Boganda Stadium
Complexe Sportif Barthelemy Boganda in Bangui is the national stadium of the Central African Republic. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people. It is named after the former president of the country, Barthelemy Boganda.-External links:*...
Barthélemy Boganda
Barthélemy Boganda
Barthélemy Boganda was the leading nationalist politician of what is now the Central African Republic. Boganda was active prior to his country's independence, during the period when the area, part of French Equatorial Africa, was administered by France under the name of Oubangui-Chari...
Baya
Bernard Ayandho
Bernard Ayandho
Bernard Christian Ayandho was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 26 September 1979 to 22 August 1980....
Central African Democratic Rally
Central African Democratic Rally
The Central African Democratic Rally is a political party in the Central African Republic. In the first round of the 2005 presidential election, held on 13 March, the party's candidate, André Kolingba, took 16.36% of the vote and third place. In the 2005 parliamentary election, the RDC won 8 out...
Central African Democratic Union
Central African Democratic Union
Central African Democratic Union , was a political party in the Central African Republic. UDC was installed by David Dacko in 1980 at a congress in March that year. Dacko claimed that UDC was the continuation of MESAN.-References:* O'Toole, Thomas. The Central African Republic: The Continent's...
Central African Empire
Central African Empire
The Central African Empire was a short-lived, self-declared autocratic monarchy that replaced the Central African Republic and was, in turn, replaced by the restoration of the republic. The empire was formed when Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the republic, declared himself Emperor Bokassa I on...
Central African National Liberation Movement
Central African National Liberation Movement
Central African National Liberation Movement , was a political opposition movement in the Central African Republic. MCLN was led by Dr. Rodolphe Iddi Lala...
Central African Republic at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Central African Republic at the 1992 Summer Olympics
The Central African Republic competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.-Athletics:Men's 100m metres*Valentin Ngbogo* Heat — 10.79 Men's 400m Hurdles*Jacques Henri Brunet...
Central African Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Central African Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics
The Central African Republic competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.- Men :Track and road eventsField events- Women :Track and road events-References:*...
Central African Republic national football team
Central African Republic national football team
The Central African Republic national football team, nicknamed Les Fauves, is the national team of the Central African Republic and is controlled by the Fédération Centrafricaine de Football. They are a member of CAF. Despite being traditionally one of the weakest teams in Africa and the world,...
Charles Massi
Charles Massi
Charles Massi is a Central African politician. Massi served as a minister in the government of the Central African Republic during the 1990s and again from 2005 to 2008; he was also the President of the Democratic Forum for Modernity party from 1997 to 2008...
Coat of arms of the Central African Republic
Coat of arms of the Central African Republic
The coat of arms of the Central African Republic consists of a shield in the center, with two flags on its edges, and with a sun rising over the shield...
Communications in the Central African Republic
Communications in the Central African Republic
- Postal System:Direction des services postaux de l’Office National des Postes et de l'Épargne is responsible for the postal service.-Telephone Network:...
Confédération Syndicale des Travailleurs de Centrafrique
Célestin Gaombalet
Célestin Gaombalet
Célestin Leroy Gaombalet is a Central African politician who was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 2003 to 2005. He has been President of the National Assembly since 2005.-Biography:Gaombalet was born in the village of Grimari....
Democratic Evolution Movement of Central Africa
Democratic Evolution Movement of Central Africa
Democratic Evolution Movement of Central Africa was a political party in the Central African Republic led by Abel Goumba...
Democratic Forum for Modernity
Democratic Forum for Modernity
The Democratic Forum for Modernity is a political party in the Central African Republic. The party was founded by Charles Massi on 27 November 1997 and legally recognized on 4 May 1998....
Edouard Frank
Edouard Frank
Édouard Frank is a Central African magistrate and political figure. He was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 15 March 1991 to 4 December 1992.Frank presided over the 1986–1987 trial of former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa...
Elections in the Central African Republic
Elections in the Central African Republic
Elections in the Central African Republic gives information on election and election results in the Central African Republic.The Central African Republic elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people...
Elisabeth Domitien
Elisabeth Domitien
Elisabeth Domitien was prime minister of the Central African Republic from 1975 to 1976. She was the first and to date only woman to hold the position....
Enoch Derant Lakoué
Enoch Derant Lakoué
Enoch Derant Lakoué was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 26 February 1993 to 25 October 1993. He was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the August 1993 presidential election, receiving 2.39% of the vote, and again in the September 1999 presidential election,...
Fer language
Fer language
The Fer language, also Dam Fer or Fertit, one of several languages called Kara , is a Central Sudanic language spoken by some five thousand people in the northern Central African Republic near the Sudanese and Chadian borders, in the region known as Dar Runga.While the Ethnologue lists it as...
Flag of the Central African Republic
Flag of the Central African Republic
The flag of the Central African Republic was adopted on December 1, 1958. It was designed by Barthélemy Boganda, the first president of the autonomous territory of Oubangui-Chari, who believed that "France and Africa must march together." Thus he combined the blue, white and red of the French...
French Equatorial Africa
French Equatorial Africa
French Equatorial Africa or the AEF was the federation of French colonial possessions in Middle Africa, extending northwards from the Congo River to the Sahara Desert.-History:...
Fédération Centrafricaine de Football
Fédération Centrafricaine de Football
The Fédération Centrafricaine de Football is the governing body of football in the Central African Republic. It was founded in 1961, affiliated to FIFA in 1963 and to CAF in 1965. The offices of the RCA are located in Bangui, the capital city...
Fédération des Eclaireurs Scouts Centrafricains
Fédération des Eclaireurs Scouts Centrafricains
The Central African Republic is one of 29 countries where Scouting exists but where there is no National Scout Organization which is a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement at the present time. Scouting was founded in French Equatorial Africa in 1941, and was first recognized in...
Gabriel Koyambounou
Gabriel Koyambounou
Gabriel Jean-Edouard Koyambounou is a Central African politician who was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 12 April 1995 to 6 June 1996. He is currently the First Vice-President of the Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People .Koyambounou was acquitted of misuse...
Henri Maïdou
Henri Maïdou
Henri Maïdou was Prime Minister of the Central African Empire/Central African Republic from 14 July 1978 to 26 September 1979.- References :...
Independent Grouping for Reflection
Independent Grouping for Reflection
Independent Grouping for Reflection , was a political party in the Central African Republic. GIR was led by François Pehoua, a former minister in the Bokassa cabinet. Pehoua was the GIR candidate in the 1981 presidential elections. GIR was generally based amongst bureaucrats and...
Islam in the Central African Republic
Islam in the Central African Republic
Islam accounts for approximately 10% of the population of the Central African Republic, making it the second most followed organized religion in the country after Christianity . Most Central African Muslims live in the north, near the border with predominantly Muslim Chad. -References:...
Jean-Luc Mandaba
Jean-Luc Mandaba
Jean-Luc Mandaba was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 25 October 1993 to 12 April 1995 under president Ange-Félix Patassé....
Jean-Pierre Lebouder
Jean-Pierre Lebouder
Jean-Pierre Lebouder was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 12 November 1980 to 3 April 1981.-References:...
LGBT rights in the Central African Republic (Gay rights)
Löndö Association
Löndö Association
The Löndö Association is a political party in the Central African Republic.At the last elections, 13 March and 8 May 2005, the party won 1 out of 105 seats in the National Assembly....
Mandja
Mandja
The Mandja are an ethnic group in the Central African Republic. They number approximately 250,000....
Martin Ziguélé
Martin Ziguélé
Martin Ziguélé is a Central African politician who was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 2001 to 2003...
Michel Gbezera-Bria
Michel Gbezera-Bria
Michel Gbezera-Bria is a Central African politician who was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 1997 to 1999.-Biography:...
Movement for Democracy and Independence
Movement for Democracy and Independence
Movement for Democracy and Independence was a political party in the Central African Republic. MDI was led by François Gueret. Gueret had served in David Dacko's cabinet, but resigned. MDI was fiercely anti-Soviet and somewhat pro-China. In the 1981 presidential elections MDI nominated Gueret.-...
Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People
Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People
The Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People is a political party in the Central African Republic. It was established in Paris in 1979 by former prime minister Ange-Félix Patassé as a Central African opposition movement...
National Confederation of Central African Workers
National Convergence "Kwa Na Kwa"
National Unity Party (Central African Republic)
National Unity Party (Central African Republic)
The National Unity Party is a political party in the Central African Republic.In the presidential election held on 13 March 2005, its candidate and leader, Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, won 5.08% of the vote. Ngoupandé had served as president from June 1996 to January 1997...
Patriotic Front for Progress
Patriotic Front for Progress
The Patriotic Front for Progress is a political party in the Central African Republic.The FPP strongly opposed President Ange-Félix Patassé. In 2002, the party suspended its participation in the opposition coalition....
People's Army for the Restoration of the Republic and Democracy
People's Army for the Restoration of the Republic and Democracy
People's Army for the Restoration of the Republic and Democracy or PARRD is a rebel group operating in the Central African Republic . PARRD wants to overthrow current CAR President François Bozizé. PARRD has claimed responsibility for two major attacks, contributing to the influx of Central African...
Public holidays in the Central African Republic
Republican Progressive Party
Republican Progressive Party
Republican Progressive Party , was a political party in the Central African Republic. PPR was led by Henri Maidou, former prime minister in Bokassa's cabinet. Maidou was the PPR candidate in the 1981 presidential elections.Source: O'Toole, Thomas. The Central African Republic: The Continent's...
Romain Sato
Romain Sato
Romain Guessagba-Sato-Lebel, generally known as Romain Sato , is a Central African professional basketball player, who currently plays for Panathinaikos. He plays as a swingman.-Amateur career:...
Roman Catholicism in the Central African Republic
Roman Catholicism in the Central African Republic
The Roman Catholic Church in the Central African Republic is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....
Simon Narcisse Bozanga
Simon Narcisse Bozanga
Simon Narcisse Bozanga was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 4 April 1981 to 1 September 1981, when his government was overthrown by a military coup. Before serving as Prime Minister, Bozanga was Ambassador to Gabon from 1978 to 1979, and Minister of Justice from 1980 to...
Social Democratic Party (Central African Republic)
Social Democratic Party (Central African Republic)
The Social Democratic Party is a political party in the Central African Republic.At the last elections, 13 March and 8 May 2005, the party won 4 out of 105 seats in the National Assembly....
Sub-prefectures of the Central African Republic
Sub-prefectures of the Central African Republic
The prefectures of the Central African Republic are divided into 71 sub-prefectures . The sub-prefectures are listed below, by prefecture.-Bamingui-Bangoran Prefecture:* Bamingui* Ndélé-Bangui Commune:* Bangui...
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Timothée Malendoma
Timothée Malendoma
Timothée Malendoma was a Central African politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 4 December 1992 to 26 February 1993...
Transport in the Central African Republic
Transport in the Central African Republic
- Railways :There are no railways in the Central African Republic.A line from Cameroon port of Kribi to Bangui was proposed in 2002.- Highways :In 2002, the country had 23,810 km of roads, of which only 429 km were paved...
Union of Central African Workers
University of Bangui
University of Bangui
The University of Bangui is a public university located in Bangui, Central African Republic. As of 2006, it is the only university in the Central African Republic.- History :...
Élie Doté
Élie Doté
Élie Doté was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from June 2005 to January 2008.-Biography:Born in Bangui, Doté has a doctorate degree in rural economy and worked at the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Ministry from 1974 to 1980 before becoming an expert at the African Development...

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