Bouar
Bouar is the capital of the Nana-Mambéré prefecture in the Central African Republic . 40,353 inhabitants live in the city (2003).
history
Bouar is located at just under 950 m altitude in the west of the Central African Republic on the main road from Bangui to Cameroon , which Bouar used to belong to. The Lobaye flows through Bouar. The population in 2003 was around 26,600 people.
Civil war
In the place and the prefecture of Nana-Mambéré there has been a civil war since 2012, in which more than 1000 people died by December 2013.
Death of Camille Lepage
On May 13, 2014, the 26-year-old French freelance photojournalist Camille Lepage died in an incident in Bouar . The journalist was the victim of a targeted attack by the Christian anti-Balaka militia . Until her death, the young journalist had worked as a war reporter for the American newspapers The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, as well as the French newspapers Le Monde and Liberation.
Individual evidence
- ^ Direction Générale de la Statistique, des Etudes Economiques et Sociales, Central African Republic. 2003 Census
- ^ French journalist Camille Lepage killed in CAR
- ^ Massacre evidence found in CAR Al Jazeera. November 8, 2013.
- ^ RIP Camille Lepage, French photojournalist killed in Central African Republic
- ↑ French photographer Camille Lepage killed in Central African Republic
Coordinates: 5 ° 56 ' N , 15 ° 36' E