Bozizé's new Kwa na Kwa movement has shallow roots compared to old forces like the Rassemblement Démocratique Centrafricain of ex-President André Kolingba the main voice of the southern Yakoma...
Former military ruler André Kolingba's support is based among the minority Yakoma population in the south while younger technocratic candidates such as Ziguélé Massi or former Premier Jean-Paul Ngoupandé may lack appeal outside their regional strongholds (although these should deliver parliamentary seats)...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
André Kolingba - who was warmly welcomed home from Uganda where he fled after the failure of his 2001 coup attempt...
Bozizé who was gaoled under the military dictator André Kolingba (1981-1993)...
He is accused of preparing a second coup allegedly in parallel with the violent failed putsch led by ex-President André Kolingba (in exile in Uganda and condemned to death in absentia)...
Patassé owed even more to his next victims Demafouth and Bozizé (the latter in 1982 mounted a failed coup for him against the then President André Kolingba)...
Patassé and French officials insist the plot was masterminded by André Kolingba an ex-general and Patassé's unelected predecessor who now leads the largest opposition party...
CAR's domestic problems especially the rivalry between President Ange-Félix Patassé's supporters and André Kolingba's Yakoma people spill across the Oubangui which forms the Congo-CAR border...
Most opposition members of the Assembly belong to the Yakoma-dominated Rassemblement Démocratique Centrafricain (RDC) which under the regime of General André Kolingba was the only authorised party...
Voters are faced with a familiar array of front-runners: incumbent President Patassé his predecessor General André Kolingba and David Dacko who served twice as head of state...
