Vol 52 No 19 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICCHAD Mastering the militias 23rd September 2011 Under pressure from Chad, the President is neutralising the militias in the north, amid questions about whether the peace can last Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno has had a crucial influence on the regime of President François Bozizé Yangouvonda and he has let him know that the armed Chadian...
Vol 52 No 19 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Baba Laddé: Robber or Robin Hood? 23rd September 2011 While the armed groups in the Central African Republic boast grandiose titles including words such as ‘front’ and ‘people’, extortion is usually their raison d’être. Most are led...
Vol 52 No 18 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Making calls on the state 9th September 2011 Observers are asking if a crackdown on a telecoms scandal signals a new approach to corruption In a fit of unusual state zeal on 2 August, police in Bangui arrested a Frenchman working for local telecommunications company Telsoft Gateway Centrafrique and charged him with...
Vol 52 No 18 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Bozizé slows down his takeover 9th September 2011 After rigging the January elections and colonising the state apparatus with his relatives and members of a Gbaya elite, President François Bozizé Yangouvonda is applying the brakes after...
Vol 52 No 13 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC The devil you know 24th June 2011 The European Union backs a fraudulently elected President because it fears the consequences of his fall President François Bozizé emerged strengthened from an aid-pledging conference in Brussels on 16-17 June when European Union states promised more than 400 billion CFA francs (US$870 million) for...
Vol 52 No 12 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Ritual killings spark riots 10th June 2011 Three days of clashes in Bangui sparked by the discovery of the corpses of two young boys on 31 May, believed to have been ritually murdered, show the...
Vol 52 No 5 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICNIGEREUROPEAN UNION The EU pays but keeps silent 4th March 2011 Opposition candidates declared the first round of the presidential election on 23 January tainted (‘vicié’), putting President François Bozizé’s 64.7% share of the vote in doubt (AC Vol 51 No...