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Central African Republic
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. [...]

Published on 25/10/2024 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Brice Kevin Kakpayen
Bruno Yapandé
European Union
Faustin Archange Touadera
International Monetary Fund
Michel Nicaise Nassin
Minusca
Richard Filakota
Simplice Mathieu Sarandji
Sylvie Baipo-Temon
United Nations
United Nations Development Programme
Wagner
World Bank

Central African Republic
The uncertain fate of the European prisoner in a Bangui jail

The Belgian-Portuguese Joseph Figueira Martin, who works as a consultant for NGOs and international institutions, remains locked up in a Bangui prison that is partly controlled by Wagner. CAR authorities accuse him of espionage, and European states are struggling to help.

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Joseph Figueira Martin in Mauritania in 2022.

Central African Republic
Third IMF support tranche snags on reform of hydrocarbons sector

CAR finance minister Hervé Ndoba is counting on international aid to wrap up his 2025 budget but finds himself at odds with the powerful energy minister Arthur Bertrand Piri.

Subscribers only Finance, Energy 15.11.2024

Hervé Ndoba, Central African minister of finance, in Bangui on 7 May 2022.

Central African Republic
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

Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra in Bangui, in August 2023.

Central African Republic
Sacked manager Raoul Savoy threatens to sue FIFA

He is claiming €160,000 in unpaid wages.

Subscribers only Politics 31.10.2024

Central African Republic
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

Central African Republic
MINUSCA to get peacekeeping reinforcements from March

In a move eagerly awaited by President Touadéra, Tunisia, Senegal, Togo and Bhutan will send rapid reaction forces to the UN's peacekeeping mission in CAR in the first quarter of 2022. The sheer number of extra troops, to which Ghana has also pledged to add its own before the summer, is proving a logisitical challenge for MINUSCA.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 14.01.2022

Central African Republic
Touadéra and Moscow protect warlord Hassan Bouba from international justice

By targeting one of the emblematic figures of the Central African Republic conflict - livestock minister and former rebel leader Hassan Bouba - the Bangui special criminal court has thrown a spanner into an already uneasy mix of peace deals, jittery financial backers and Russian mercenaries.

Subscribers only Politics 02.12.2021

Central African livestock minister Hassan Bouba in February 2021.

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International Monetary Fund
Michel Nicaise Nassin
Minusca
Richard Filakota
Simplice Mathieu Sarandji
Sylvie Baipo-Temon
United Nations
United Nations Development Programme
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World Bank

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