Full Coverage: Central Africa

31.12.2005 The Chadian parliament has voted to scrap a fund set up to safeguard a portion of the country’s petrodollars for future generations, in a move the World Bank has called a "material breach" of a ground-breaking contract with donors.

29.12.2005 Renewed fighting between opposition militias and government forces supported by UN peacekeeping troops has displaced at least 10,000 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

14.12.2005 A top oil official in the Republic of Congo has been secretly selling hundreds of millions of dollars in cut-price oil to private companies he himself owns, reports a investigative campaign group.

02.12.2005 Cameroon is urged to release 11 men detained for the last seven months on suspicion of “sodomy” and to prevent a government-ordered “medical examination” to determine if they are gay.