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...
Vol 65 No 16 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has begun the process of restoring relations with France...
Unlike the Central African Republic – where President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has re-engaged with France while maintaining security ties with Russia – Niger shows no sign of a slowdown in its gradual divorce from Ecowas and the west (AC Vol 64 No 22 Touadéra stirs the geopolitical cauldron & Vol 65 No 3 Juntas in shock split from Ecowas)...
Russian mercenaries no longer openly roam the streets of Bangui by day as in the Wagner Group's heyday but they still pluck President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's opponents from the streets by night...
The short arm of the law retreats further Accountability and justice may have been a shaky concept in Central African Republic before now but the corruption of the judicial system has worsened – Russian operatives and cronies of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra are untouchable unlike the opposition and the general public...
One of Russia's closest African security clients the Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra appears to be decreasing reliance on the Kremlin by refreshing diplomatic relations with France and accepting a United States offer of military training...
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