Central African
Americanadjective
noun
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He addressed the Central African nation on Wednesday at a Mass that drew some 100,000 people, including Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the country's leader and the world's long-serving president.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Plainclothes security officers guard the detention center, a Ministry of Social Affairs office building in Yaoundé, the capital of the Central African country.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
He was also in Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Central African Republic and worked on close protection in Israel, Cyprus and the UK.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026
The Central African Republic holds elections Sunday, with Faustin-Archange Touadera widely tipped to remain president after a campaign in which he boasted of steadying a nation long plagued by conflict.
From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025
In the case of the Pygmies, the answer is “not yet,” merely because archaeologists have yet to discover ancient human skeletons from the Central African forests.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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