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Touadéra switches allegiance in Sudan civil war

Faustin-Archange Touadéra in Moscow, Russia, 16 February 2024. © Yekaterina Shtukina/Pool/AFP

Subscribers only Diplomacy Running story - Sudan : the generals waging war 13.11.2024

European Union swaps out Spain's Altair for Expertise France

The French agency Expertise France is preparing to return to Bangui to help the CAR government in the fields of justice and public finance.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 13.11.2024

Diamond embargo to be raised in decisive Dubai meeting

The country's diamond industry is hoping that a decade-long embargo on its stones will be partially or fully lifted as a result of the Kimberley Process plenary meeting being held this week in the UAE.

Subscribers only Mining 11.11.2024

MINUSCA soldiers patrol in the PK12 area of Bangui on 13 January 2021. © Florent Vergnes/AFP

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President Touadéra wants UN peacekeepers to leave Bangui

Faustin-Archange Touadéra recently asked the UN mission in the Central African Republic to redeploy its peacekeepers from the capital to the provinces. The request comes as the renewal of the UN mission's mandate is about to be examined.

Subscribers only Politics 06.11.2024

Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra in Bangui, in August 2023. © Barbara Debout/AFP

Touadéra sets his team straight after foreign agents bill sent back

The Central African president called a meeting in his fiefdom in late October to berate his clan's MPs and ask them to adopt a pro-Russian law on foreign agents.

Subscribers only Defence 04.11.2024

Fuel vendors in front of an empty gas station in Bangui on 16 October 2022. © AFP

Neptune Oil threatens to pull out amid lower fuel price demands

The CAR energy minister recently visited the Cameroonian trading company's HQ in Douala to negotiate lower fuel prices. But its indignant owner, Antoine Ndzengue, refused outright and threatened to withdraw from the country.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders 03.10.2024

Neptune Oil manoeuvres to become SOCASP shareholder

CAR energy minister Arthur Bertrand Piri is continuing to push for Cameroon's Neptune Oil to be allowed to take shares in Société Centrafrique de Stockage des Produits Pétroliers. But his latest attempt at a SOCASP shareholders' meeting in late October failed.

Subscribers only Energy 07.11.2024

BEAC and extractive industry professionals prolong negotiations on rehabilitation funds

Oil and mining companies operating within CEMAC had undertaken to reach an agreement with the bloc's central bank by 1 January, but are now aiming to do so four months later.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining 05.11.2024

ECCAS in need of CFA 15bn

The Economic Community of Central African States needs to find between €22m and €27m if it is to continue to operate.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 04.11.2024

Sacked manager Raoul Savoy threatens to sue FIFA

He is claiming €160,000 in unpaid wages.

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2024

Law on 'foreign agents' embarrasses Touadéra's ministers

A draft law which aims to control the activities of foreign nationals in the Central African Republic has displeased the country's international financial backers, who were due to release their budgetary aid for local elections.

Free access Diplomacy 25.10.2024

Bangui considers Russian-influenced bill to keep tabs on 'foreign agents'

The National Assembly has just begun discussing a bill aimed at monitoring any private individuals or legal entities whom the authorities consider to be "financially controlled" from abroad. The bill is particularly worrying for the charity sector.

Subscribers only Politics 15.10.2024

Foreign diamond dealers finally free after costly ordeal

Two Franco-Algerian nationals who were detained in June were released from prison last month. They claim to have lost several million dollars.

Subscribers only Politics 14.10.2024

Emirati oil company Tristar gets green light to supply commercial airlines

The MINUSCA supplier can now sell Jet A-1 fuel at Bangui airport.

Subscribers only Finance 11.10.2024

Touadéra nurtures Moscow relations ahead of ministerial talks

The CAR foreign minister is due in Sochi in the second week of November.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 10.10.2024

Bangui takes aim at opposition figure who pressed charges in France for 'assassination attempt'

Opposition figure Jean-François Akandji-Kombé, who filed a complaint against CAR Sports Minister Rodolphe Héritier Doneng in mid-July for an alleged assassination attempt in France, now finds himself in the firing line.

Subscribers only Politics 07.10.2024

Burkinabe firm beats off Chinese giants to clinch $15m road contract

The CAR infrastructure minister has awarded Copiafax Burkina a contract to upgrade 35 km of road between Bangui and Bossongo.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 27.09.2024

Livestock minister Hassan Bouba hit by travel ban

The minister, who is close to Russia, seems to be falling out of favour with President Touadéra. Earlier this month, he was prevented from leaving the country to receive medical treatment.

Subscribers only Politics 20.09.2024

Wagner covets mining permits granted to Kigali

The Russian paramilitary group Wagner, which is well-established in the Central African Republic, is taking a dim view of the growing ties between President Faustin-Archange Touadéra and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame.

Subscribers only Defence, Mining 17.09.2024

A Russian officer from Wagner provides security for Faustin-Archange Touadera during the referendum campaign to change the constitution, in Bangui, 16 July 2023.

UPC rebel group takes steps towards potential disarmament

One of CAR's largest armed groups is participating in talks with the government with a view to disarming. Meanwhile, the rebel group's main adversaries on the ground, the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, have not been invited to talks scheduled in Chad in the coming weeks.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 10.09.2024

Touadéra keeps an eye on his hydrocarbons minister nephew

Central African Republic Energy Minister Arthur Bertrand Piri is trying to sell shares in a petroleum products storage company to the Cameroonian firm Neptune Oil. The situation is being closely monitored by his uncle, President Faustin Archange Touadéra, and by Prime Minister Félix Moloua.

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.2024

Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadéra in Beijing on 5 September 2024.

Is the diamond embargo about to be lifted completely for CAR?

A Kimberley Process team is due to visit the Central African Republic from 9 to 15 September, to look at the possibility of lifting the diamond trade sanctions.

Subscribers only Mining 06.09.2024

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Wagner caught out playing ethnic alliances in CAR

Zandé militiamen in the southeast of the Central African Republic revolted against Russian paramilitaries over violence meted out during a training session, prompting concern in Bangui and at the UN over an uptick in tensions in the strategic and resource-rich border region.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 05.09.2024

A member of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, 16 July 2023 in Bangui.

Kagame prepares for EECAS chairmanship

The Economic Community of Central African States will return to business with an ordinary meeting in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on 18 September.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 04.09.2024

Moscow sets up legal framework for arms sales to Bangui

At the Army 2024 international forum held in Moscow in August, CAR's Defence Minister signed an agreement with his Russian counterpart to regulate the sale of Russian arms to his country.

Subscribers only Defence 03.09.2024

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Touadéra switches allegiance in Sudan civil war

European Union swaps out Spain's Altair for Expertise France

Diamond embargo to be raised in decisive Dubai meeting

Spotlight
President Touadéra wants UN peacekeepers to leave Bangui

Touadéra sets his team straight after foreign agents bill sent back

Neptune Oil threatens to pull out amid lower fuel price demands

Neptune Oil manoeuvres to become SOCASP shareholder

BEAC and extractive industry professionals prolong negotiations on rehabilitation funds

ECCAS in need of CFA 15bn

Sacked manager Raoul Savoy threatens to sue FIFA

Law on 'foreign agents' embarrasses Touadéra's ministers

Bangui considers Russian-influenced bill to keep tabs on 'foreign agents'

Foreign diamond dealers finally free after costly ordeal

Emirati oil company Tristar gets green light to supply commercial airlines

Touadéra nurtures Moscow relations ahead of ministerial talks

Bangui takes aim at opposition figure who pressed charges in France for 'assassination attempt'

Burkinabe firm beats off Chinese giants to clinch $15m road contract

Livestock minister Hassan Bouba hit by travel ban

Wagner covets mining permits granted to Kigali

UPC rebel group takes steps towards potential disarmament

Touadéra keeps an eye on his hydrocarbons minister nephew

Is the diamond embargo about to be lifted completely for CAR?

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Touadéra switches allegiance in Sudan civil war

European Union swaps out Spain's Altair for Expertise France

Diamond embargo to be raised in decisive Dubai meeting

Spotlight President Touadéra wants UN peacekeepers to leave Bangui

Touadéra sets his team straight after foreign agents bill sent back

Neptune Oil threatens to pull out amid lower fuel price demands

Neptune Oil manoeuvres to become SOCASP shareholder

BEAC and extractive industry professionals prolong negotiations on rehabilitation funds

ECCAS in need of CFA 15bn

Sacked manager Raoul Savoy threatens to sue FIFA

Law on 'foreign agents' embarrasses Touadéra's ministers

Bangui considers Russian-influenced bill to keep tabs on 'foreign agents'

Foreign diamond dealers finally free after costly ordeal

Emirati oil company Tristar gets green light to supply commercial airlines

Touadéra nurtures Moscow relations ahead of ministerial talks

Bangui takes aim at opposition figure who pressed charges in France for 'assassination attempt'

Burkinabe firm beats off Chinese giants to clinch $15m road contract

Livestock minister Hassan Bouba hit by travel ban

Wagner covets mining permits granted to Kigali

UPC rebel group takes steps towards potential disarmament

Touadéra keeps an eye on his hydrocarbons minister nephew

Is the diamond embargo about to be lifted completely for CAR?

Spotlight Wagner caught out playing ethnic alliances in CAR

Kagame prepares for EECAS chairmanship

Moscow sets up legal framework for arms sales to Bangui

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Spotlight
President Touadéra wants UN peacekeepers to leave Bangui

Spotlight
Wagner caught out playing ethnic alliances in CAR