Central African Republic

For the past twenty years, the EU has been deploying military-mandated missions overseas that have gone virtually under the radar and generally evaded public scrutiny. The Transnational Institute’s new report ‘Under the Radar: Twenty years of EU military missions’ sheds light on these missions.

CONTENT WARNING: this article makes references to sexual violence, torture, and other details that some readers may find upsetting.
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Submission to the 87th Session of the Human Rights Committee: July 2006:

No legislation recognising the right of conscientious objection to
military service has ever been reported from the Central African
Republic. The current situation of the national armed forces is
unclear.

20/07/1998

In the Central African Republic, a former French colony, several armed groups are fighting each other. On 15 April 1998, French troops, who were supposed to be a peace keeping force, were replaced by a 1,400-strong UN peace keeping force MINURCA, with soldiers from seven African countries. Despite a peace agreement, the armed conflict continues to cause deaths. [5]

1 Conscription

conscription exists

According to several sources, there is selective conscription.