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January 4 – 2020–21 Central African general election: Preliminary results show that President Touadera has won reelection with 53% of the vote. Turnout was 76.3% of registered voters.[12]
January 9 – Refugees flee the Central African Republic as tensions rise. 24,000 have gone to the DR Congo, 4,500 to Cameroon, 2,200 to Chad, and 70 to the Republic of the Congo.[13]
January 13 – A U.N. peacekeeper from Rwanda is killed in fighting near Bangui, Central African Republic.[14]
January 24 – The Turkish Armed Forces plan a rescue mission for the M/V Mozart, which was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea near Sao Tome and Principe on January 23. Fifteen sailors have been kidnapped and one killed.[15]
January 30 – The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region warns about regional stability as the Central African Republic Civil War intensifies. 93,000 refugees have seek protection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and 13,000 in Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon; another 100,000 are internally displaced. Travel between Cameroon and Bangui is nearly impossible.[16]
February 4 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cancels deportation of asylum-seeking refugees from Cameroon, Angola, and Congo because of allegations of brutality by ICE agents in the treatment of the deportees.[17]
February 12 – Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates in January are freed.[18]
March 8 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled that Bosco Ntaganda′s victims should be compensated with USD $30 million, the highest amount ever rewarded. Since Ntaganda does not have the money to pay, the Court will use its own funds to compensate victims.[20]
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