Residents flee Bangui as rebels pause for talks
An insurgency has swept across much of the poverty-stricken former French colony since Dec. 10, posing the biggest threat yet to President Francois Bozize's nearly 10 years in power and threatening a humanitarian crisis
CAR appeals for French help against rebels, Paris balks
The rebel advance has highlighted the instability of a country that has remained poor since independence from Paris in 1960
CAR wants French help as rebels close in on capital
Appeal for help comes as hundreds protest outside French embassy in anger at rebel advance through north of country
Burundi refugees arrive in homeland theyve never seen
Aid workers tackle problems of integrating Burundian children born in exile as 34,000 refugees head home from Tanzania