Central African Republic

Customs revenues account for almost a third of Central Africa's state budget, but technical and financial partners regularly point to organizational problems and corruption. A customs agreement was signed on May 7 between the Russian Economic Commission and the Ministry of Finance, but it continues to provoke debate. Recent controversy, the video of a UN mission car loaded by Russian partners. The…

President Touadéra was announced at the end of his re-election and the Republican dialogue is delayed in the Central African Republic. The establishment of the organizing committee by presidential decree on June 30 triggered a shout in the opposition, which then considered it unbalanced in favor of the government. as reported…

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the city of Zongo, which borders the capital of Central Africa, in the far north of the country, celebrated its fifty years of existence on Friday. Many personalities from the province of Equateur but also from Bangui attended the ceremony as mayors of the two cities, financially highly dependent on each other, who signed a memorandum of understanding to…

According to confirming sources, the victims, who could be more, were young traders who traveled by motorcycle to the Kouki market. The government immediately attributed responsibility for the tragedy to the CPC's rebel coalition, in which the region is one of the strongholds, but many sources point instead to Russian intervention in the area.…

A group of young people was killed on Wednesday 21 July in Bongboto, 12 kilometers from Bossangoa. No official record yet, but it is believed there are at least eight dead. For the government, this is the element of the CPC's armed coalition who attacked villagers moving on the Nana-Bakassa axis. In the images consulted, the…

Players from the Red Star Ndongo Club, the nickname "Africa", who won the African Club Cup in the 1970s, died in the most complete poverty and caused many reactions in Bangui. After finishing his career, it was difficult for him to find a job. In recent years, he has lived on the solidarity of those around him. Sick, he had initiated appeals to help him pay for his care.…

Russia is increasingly present in Africa through official diplomacy but also through private actors such as Evgueni Prigojine, who is considered the leader of the Wagner militia, and various companies that specialize in online disinformation. In a study that has just been published, Maxime Audinet, a researcher at the IRSEM (Institute for Strategic Research of the Military School) and author of a dissertation on Russian influence at the University of Nanterre, analyzes this Russian influence in Africa, in Central Africa.…

In the Central African Republic, President Touadéra began his re-entry on Friday, July 16. In his speech, he mentioned the creation of the Truth, Justice, Reconciliation and Separation Commission (CVJRR), whose eleven commissioners swore in early July. The CVJRR is one of the recommendations to end the crisis in the Bangui Forum in 2015, which was addressed in the Khartoum Agreements of 2019. The eleven…

In the Central African Republic after the offensive, which at the beginning of the year was led by the rebel coalition of the Coalition for Change (CPC) and drove back to the gates of Bangui, the capital, now half the population is in food insecurity, a third more than last year. as reported from Bangui, Carol ValadeIn the…

Representatives of the opposition and civil society were received on Friday, July 9, by the Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the Central African Presidency, Obed Namsio. Objective: to provoke disagreements over the future committee that will organize the republican dialogue in the country. On June 30, a presidential decree angering the organization of this committee angered the opposition.…