19 March 2025: On Ndoutingai street, PK 13, Bangui city and prefecture, an unspecified number of young girls were ambushed and raped by a group of armed Wagner mercenaries. Source: Corbeau News. Return to CAR home page.

As reported on 06 July 2024: In Bakari-Simon village, Baboua town, Nana Mambere prefecture, Cameroonian soldiers deployed in the border have been accused of raping and physically assaulting civilians. Source: Corbeau News. Return to CAR home page.

As reported on 28 April 2024: In Yalinga town, Haute-Kotto prefecture, 14 mattresses were looted from a health centre by Wagner mercenaries. Source: Corbeau News. Return to CAR home page.

14 April 2024: In Kologota village, Bakouma district, Mbomou prefecture, the head of a health post and eight other civilians were killed and six houses burned when suspected UPC militants attacked the village. Source: Corbeau News. Return to Central African Republic home page.

07 March 2024: In Birao city, Vakanga prefecture, an INGO compound was stormed by unidentified armed men who injured a bodyguard and kidnapped another one. Source: AWSD. Return to CAR home page.

26 February 2024: In Ndjoukou town, Kemo sub-prefecture, vehicles belonging to the Welcome Social Society (WSS) NGO and a local Catholic mission were attacked by armed Wagner Group mercenaries. Source: Corbeau News. Return to CAR home page.

17 November 2023: Between Bambari and Ippy towns, Ouaka prefecture, armed men opened fire at an NGO convoy, taking away satellite phones, computers, money and personal belongings. Source: OCHA . Return to CAR home page.

19 October 2023: On the Obo road, near Zemio town, Haut-Mbomou prefecture, a clearly marked INGO ambulance on an emergency call in a neighbouring village was ambushed by armed UPC militants who demanded money from the staff members in exchange for their release. Source: Corbeau News

01 September 2023: On the outskirts of Batangafo town, Ouham-Fafa prefecture, violent robberies against MSF staff and community health workers have forced MSF to temporarily suspend the movement of its staff to MSF-supported health centres. Source: MSF. Return to CAR home page.

17 August 2023: In the Zemio-Mboki axis, Haut-Mbomou region, two national NGO aid workers were kidnapped during road travel by Unite pour la Paix en Centrafrique (UPC) members. Both were released on 20 August. Source: AWSD. Return to Central African Republic home page.

15 June 2023: In Zemio town. Haut-Mbomou prefecture, a WHO consultant for a vaccination programme was robbed by unidentified armed perpetrators. Source: OCHA. Return to CAR home page.

11 January 2023: Along the Ouandja-Birao road, Ouandja, Birao, Vakag, INGO aid workers were robbed of their belongings by an unidentified armed group. Source: ACLED¹

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29 December 2022: In Koui sub-prefecture, Ouham-Pende prefecture, armed perpetrators beat six INGO aid workers who were returning from a field mission and stole personal belongings as well as cash. In response, the INGO suspended its activities in the area for the next two months, activities which included the construction of six boreholes to support 2,500 people in need of water supply. Source: OCHA

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09 September 2021: In Ouham-Pendé prefecture, a Danish Refugee Council aid worker was killed when the humanitarian convoy vehicle they were travelling in struck an explosive device. Three other aid workers were slightly injured and were evacuated for medical treatment. Source: BBC and Humangle

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13 August 2022: In an undisclosed location, a mobile clinic was searched. Health assets were reportedly taken and an unspecified number of health workers threatened. Source: WHOSSA¹

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23 June 2022: In Lawane quarter, Russian state-linked mercenaries from the Wagner Group detained a 30-year-old pharmacist on suspicion that he was providing health care to a rebel leader. He was taken away, tortured and executed. His body was found on 03 July by passers-by around the Ouaka River. Source: HumAngle

In October 2021, the Russia-linked Wagner Group, supported by FACA troops, attacked a village in Bossangoa district, Ouham prefecture and looted a health centre. Shops were also destroyed, livestock was stolen, and three civilians were killed in the attack. This was just one of the 107 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in the CAR in 2021, according to the SHCC. Read the full factsheet here. 

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28 May 2022: In Moyenne-Sido locality, Ouham prefecture, a 46-year-old medicine dispenser from MSF was shot three times at his home by a member of the armed forces, and a few hours later, died of his wounds in the Kabo Hospital. Sources: MSF and MSF International

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22 December 2021: In Batafango town, Ouham prefecture, three NGO contracted truck staff were reported missing on December 19 and found dead the following day in a forest outside Batangafo. Source: AWSD¹

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16 October 2021: In Kpondigmon village, Bossangoa town and district, Ouham prefecture, a health centre was looted, shops destroyed, livestock stolen and three civilians killed during an attack on the village by personnel of the Russia-linked paramilitary organisation Wagner Group, supported by the Central African Armed Forces (FACA). Sources: Corbeau News and Humangle

2021 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) Report

The SHCC identified eight incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in the CAR in 2020, compared to 13 such incidents in 2019.

Incidents were reported in five of the CAR’s 16 prefectures and the capital, Bangui. They were most frequent in Nana-Grébizi prefecture, which has a history of violence and insecurity.