Details of the South African subsidy came in a leaked 13 November letter from CAR ambassador and former CAR prime minister André Nzapayéké to his minister Sylvie Baïpo-Temon recounting the embassy's history since 2013...
Foreign Minister Sylvie Baïpo-Temon underwent just such an ordeal after four French soldiers were arrested at Bangui airport in March (AC Vol 63 No 6 UN clashes with Wagner worsen)...
This set him against hardliners in the cabinet including Jean-Claude Rameaux Bireau Touadéra's nephew and the current defence minister and foreign minister Sylvie Baïpo Temon...
But Sylvie Baïpo-Temon also in the pro-Russian camp has stayed on as foreign minister...