The Central African Republic (CAR) will set up a Special Commission of Inquiry to probe serious human rights crimes allegedly committed by national security forces during the operations against the country's largest armed group, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a press briefing on Wednesday

The alliance of Central African armed groups that control a large swath of the country will not make concessions to the government and UN troops despite the president's call for national reconciliation, its spokesman told Sputnik in an interview

UN independent expert on the human rights situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) Yao Agbetse urged in a statement on Friday conducting investigations into violence surrounding the last month's presidential election in in the Central African Republic and prosecute those responsible for human right violations to prevent further conflict

France strongly condemns a recent attack on the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), as a result of which one peacekeeper was killed and another one was injured, the French Foreign Ministry's spokesperson said on Thursday

The Central African Republic's (CAR) government forces have repelled attacks by rebels on the capital of Bangui, Prime Minister Firmin Ngrebada said on Wednesday

According to provisional results by the National election authority (l'ANE), the Central African Republic's incumbent president, Faustin-Archange Touadera, is headed toward winning a second term in last month's ballot getting 53.9 percent of the votes in the first round of elections, but no prospects for national reconciliation are looming, experts told Sputnik