One is a relative of the president Evariste Ngamana currently Deputy Speaker who has already tried several times to overthrow his boss and the other is a former colleague turned deadly rival Firmin Ngrébada who took over as prime minister in February 2019 and is known to have cultivated warm relations with Russia and Wagner...
Even members of the presidential party the Mouvement des Coeurs Unis (MCU) believe other MCU leaders such as former prime ministers Simplice Mathieu Sarandji Henri-Marie Dondra and Firmin Ngrébada should get their turn at the top...
WHO'S WHO IN BANGUI'S BITCOIN BAZAAR The flirtation of Central African Republic with cryptocurrencies – now consummated by parliament's adoption on 27 April of bitcoin as legal tender – started in February 2018 when the then Prime Minister Firmin Ngrébada invited the Cyprus-based company BFA Investment Services which also has an office in Moscow to Bangui...
He attracted the jealousy and ire of key presidential allies including two former prime ministers Simplice Mathieu Sarandji (currently parliamentary speaker) and Firmin Ngrébada who between them control the presidential party the Mouvement des Coeurs Unis (MCU – AC Vol 57 No 12 Memories of regimes past)...
In an apparent attempt to improve his image on 11 June Touadéra dismissed his prime minister Firmin Ngrébada the architect of CAR's Russia policy and its hostile stance towards Paris...
Touadéra and his chef de cabinet Firmin Ngrébada pleaded for France's help and then cynically fuelled anti-French propaganda...
This slowness – the presidential election winner was announced in late February – underlines the fact that real power is concentrated in the hands of the President his Chef de cabinet Firmin Ngrebada and the Prime Minister...
