Refugees International produce some useful reports.

International relief agency Medecins sans Frontieres produces regular reports from CAR.

Humanitarian and development organisations in CAR have a resource-packed blog website, including a factsheet.

Belgian-based think tank International Crisis Group produces regular analyses.

The U.N. refugee agency has information about refugees and internally displaced people.

Another good source on internal displacement is the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

U.N. news service IRIN produced an overview of armed groups in June 2009: Who's who with guns in CAR?

You can search for in-depth health statistics - ranging from the number of doctors per head, to the percentage of children dying from measles and health figures showing the rural-urban divide - on the World Health Organisation website. The full list on offer is available from the agency's interactive database.

The World Bank has some useful statistics about poverty, health, infrastructure and the economy.

The International Monetary Fund produced an interesting report in 2004 saying that a lack of social services and civil-service salary arrears partly explained CAR's ongoing political instability.

If you're looking for news from CAR, the French-language Centrafrique Presse newspaper is online.

AllAfrica.com compiles news from U.N. sites, human rights organisations and African newspapers.

The U.N. news service IRIN covers CAR.

The BBC's country profile includes links to local newspapers and radio.

The International Criminal Court website gives information on the investigation into 2002-2003 war crimes.