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Central African Republic
Armel Sayo avoids extradition to Bangui

The authorities have failed in their appeal to Cameroon to hand over the rebel leader. Having founded an armed group in northern CAR just a few months ago, he has been held in Yaoundé's central prison since January. [...]

Published on 05/03/2025 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
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Catherine Samba-Panza
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Déby's Bangui trip offers Russia a chance to renew partnership bid

President Mahamat Idriss Déby, who has put an end to Chad's defence agreements with France, is due to travel to Bangui this week for talks with his counterpart Faustin Archange Touadéra. Russian officials will use the visit to meet the Chadian leader and clinch a partnership.

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Vladimir Putin meets with Chad's Transitional President Mahamat Idriss Deby at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 24, 2024.

Central African Republic, Sudan
Touadéra switches allegiance in Sudan civil war

The Central African Republic president is distancing himself from Sudan's paramilitary RSF leader Hemeti and forging ties with his enemy in the country's civil war, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. In exchange, Bangui wants CAR rebel leaders in Sudan arrested.

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Faustin-Archange Touadéra in Moscow, Russia, 16 February 2024.

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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.

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MINUSCA soldiers patrol in the PK12 area of Bangui on 13 January 2021.

Central African Republic
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.

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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.

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

Central African Republic
Touadéra attempts to fend off coup threat from former presidential advisers

The Central African leader is keeping a close eye on the activities of a number of ex-advisers linked to subversive actions against his government. His services recently foiled a destabilisation plot and are gradually bringing these would-be coup leaders back into the fold.

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Faustin-Archange Touadéra during a military parade in Bangui in December 2022.

Central African Republic
Wave of arrests stirs up Bangui's PK5 Muslim district

Several self-defence group leaders, reintegrated into an infantry battalion, have been arrested in recent days in the capital by the Central African Republic army with the help of Russian paramilitaries.

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Cameroon, Central African Republic
Between business and politics, the secrets of Antoine Ndzengue's rise

Senegal
Paris and Dakar mull defence relations

Central African Republic
Armel Sayo avoids extradition to Bangui

Spotlight | Central African Republic, Chad
Déby's Bangui trip offers Russia a chance to renew partnership bid

Central African Republic, Sudan
Touadéra switches allegiance in Sudan civil war

Spotlight | Central African Republic
President Touadéra wants UN peacekeepers to leave Bangui

Central African Republic
Wagner covets mining permits granted to Kigali

Spotlight | Central African Republic
Wagner caught out playing ethnic alliances in CAR

Central African Republic
Touadéra attempts to fend off coup threat from former presidential advisers

Central African Republic
Wave of arrests stirs up Bangui's PK5 Muslim district