President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has failed in his effort to change the constitution so that he could stay in office should this year's planned elections fail to take place because of the Covid-19 pandemic or a dramatic deterioration in security outside Bangui...
Bangui's new special court the Cour Pénale Spéciale (CPS) has opened a file on the Ndélé killings but has not interviewed the ministers sources in Bangui say and is anxious not to upset President Faustin-Archange Touadéra...
Vol 60 No 6 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
While UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) in Central African Republic his previous job Onanga-Anyanga was widely seen as too close to President Faustin-Archange Touadéra whom he protected from criticism when government actions resulted in a new outbreak of intercommunal violence early last year (AC Vol 59 No 11 Solutions scarce as chaos grows)...
France and the European Union are trying to win back the affections of the CAR government of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra who has embraced Moscow's money and its security assistance...
Le Drian who was defence minister under ex-President François Hollande had €24 million in his pocket for President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's government for aid projects budget support and weapons...
Faustin-Archange Touadéra stepped into the presidency in February 2016 on a wave of goodwill seemingly ready to face the challenge of national reconciliation...
It came as President Faustin-Archange Touadéra a member of the ruling Christian élite who was elected in February 2016 faces more and more accusations of failing to reach out to his political opponents and the Muslim minority...
This is the prize that President Faustin-Archange Touadéra desperately wants for his exchequer...
The response of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra is that this can't happen until DDR is completed...
'No amnesty'Among the difficulties here is that the main donors – the European Union France the United States – are adamantly opposed to any form of amnesty even though they offer no alternative and President Faustin-Archange Touadéra backs the mediation...
