François Bozizé Yangouvonda

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: The coming months will show whether political and military opponents of President François Bozizé are willing to discuss reconciliation with his government and whether the beleaguered head of state can offer substantial concessions (AC Vol 48 No 22)...

At last there is hope of negotiation to end one of Africa's least known calamities and the multiple rebellions against President François Bozizé's regime...

SPLA officers say they have often seen LRA fighters crossing into Central African Republic where Khartoum is accused of backing the Union des Forces Démocratiques pour le Rassemblement rebels against President François Bozizé...

The raids in the neighbourhood of Birao in the far north were even more openly supportive of President François Bozizé than the strafing of rebel columns in Chad...

Libya has just mediated a regional summit attracting Presidents Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) Omer Déby and François Bozizé (CAR) to Tripoli...

Were CAR's François Bozizé to be replaced by a Khartoum-friendly President Déby would worry...

Yet Bemba is also concerned that the courts in Central African Republic (CAR) have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate claimed abuses by MLC fighters during a failed intervention to stop François Bozizé's putsch against Ange-Félix Patassé...

The MLPC's new and old guards agree in condemning President François Bozizé who deposed Patassé in 2003 over army brutality in the party's north-western home terrain...

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: President François Bozizé Yangouvonda will be able to rule by decree for three months to push economic and political reforms...

Martin Ziguélé's gracious acceptance of defeat on 25 May may help avert potential conflicts after the decisive 65 per cent victory of General François Bozizé in the second round of the presidential election...