Central_African_Republic–Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo_relations
Central African Republic–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations
Bilateral relations
Central African Republic–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations refers to the current and historic bilateral relationship between the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The two countries are neighbours and share a border 1,747 km long. Due to the military conflicts on both sides of the border, many refugees have crossed into the other's territory. There were about 200,000 Congolese nationals in the Central African Republic as of 2014,[1] and there were around 100,000 Central African refugees in the DRC as of 2016.[2]
The current Congolese ambassador to the Central African Republic is Gaspard Mugaruka, who has been in that office since 2002. Before that the DRC did not have an embassy in CAR for ten years.[3][4]