Central African Republic
Practice Relating to Rule 23. Location of Military Objectives outside Densely Populated Areas
The Central African Republic’s Instructor’s Manual (1999) states in Volume 3 (Instruction for non-commissioned officers studying for the level 1 and 2 certificates and for future officers of the criminal police) that “belligerents must avoid establishing military installations in the vicinity of the civilian population.”
Also in Volume 3, the manual states: “The defence must be organized as far as possible outside inhabited areas. … Military units, except medical units, shall move and halt preferably outside populated areas, when their presence could endanger civilian persons and objects, even if temporarily.”