A ceasefire gives them breathing space and time to train younger recruits from the Sahel and South Sudan while improving logistics by collaborating with Libya's eastern warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar Chadian President Idriss Déby Mahamat ‘Kaka' Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir...
President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's overwhelming and fraudulent win at the polls in December which gave him a third term showcases two current trends in Africa: one the skills in dubious tactics and manipulation deployed by the Russians and their local African allies and second how accommodating to autocracy both France and President Donald Trump have been lately...
A presidential pardon and expulsion are not impossible especially as President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's regime remains short of cash a few months before the elections – and the EU is the country's main donor...
President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has been under pressure to resume talks with the armed groups especially as election day approaches – it is scheduled for December...
Hundreds of activists took to the streets of Bangui on 4 April to oppose President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's plan to run for an unconstitutional third term with the support of Russia's Wagner Group mercenaries and Rwandan troops...
France and the European Union appear to have given up on CAR after failing to woo the President away from the Kremlin as illustrated by President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's deal with President Vladimir Putin in January...
Russia's Wagner Group has consolidated its position by the coercive control it wields over the Bangui elite and President Faustin-Archange Touadéra...
CAR's president Faustin-Archange Touadéra and the country's prosecutor-general Benoit Narcisse Foukpio have bought into this paranoid narrative doubling down on claims that Martin is a spy...
Another disincentive is that there is little percentage for the opposition to compete on a far from level playing field which may even threaten supporters of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra...
The regime of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra may have staved off the threat of a coup d'état – unlike neighbouring Gabon and three Sahelian states – but citizens complain of growing threats to security and galloping corruption by top officials...
TOUADERA FOLLOWS THE PUTIN PLAYBOOK On his frequent foreign trips President Faustin-Archange Touadéra can be heard lamenting the intrusive behaviour of Russia's military officials...
The detention of 41-year-old aid worker Joseph Figueira Martin at Camp de Roux in Bangui shows the power of Russia's security services over President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's government and the judicial system...