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Rival French and Russian disinformation campaigns have tried to deceive and influence Internet users in the Central African Republic ahead of an election later this month, Facebook said on Tuesday. Facebook said it was the first time it had seen foreign influence operations directly engage on its platforms, with fake accounts condemning each other as "fake news". The company said it had suspended three networks of a total of 500 accounts and sites for so-called "coordinated unauthentic behavior." One…

The United States unilaterally blacklisted Libya's Kaniyat militia and its leaders on Wednesday after Russia last week prevented a UN Security Council committee from imposing sanctions on the group's human rights abuses. The US sanctions were introduced under the Global Magnitsky Act, which allows the US government to target human rights violators around the world by freezing assets and banning Americans from doing business with them. "Mohamed al-Kani and the Kaniyat militia have tortured and killed…

The draft settlement gives for the development of a logistics middle for the Russian fleet close to Port Sudan on the coast. This assist middle shall be used for repairs, refills and the remainder of the workers. With our regional correspondent, Sebastien nemethThe Kremlin has given the inexperienced gentle to construct a naval…

Six Libyan diplomats, together with the ambassador to be appointed to Bangui, have been expelled from the Central African Republic on Saturday, October 24. They'd been arrested on their arrival the day earlier than by the port safety forces after which positioned underneath home arrest at a resort within the capital underneath guard, awaiting deportation. An incident indicating that the Libyan disaster…

Because the starting of its army cooperation with the Central African authorities within the Faustin-Archange Touadéra three years in the past, the Russian presence has been increasingly seen: army coaching, help for the FACA of their deployment on the bottom, safety of mines and much more. 'to the presidency ... A army cooperation with a promising future, in response to the latter.…

The US Treasury Department last week announced new measures against Evgueni Prigozhin and his network in the Central African Republic. The Russian businessman, close to Vladimir Putin, is accused of interfering in the 2016 US election. He has since been on the US sanctions list. He is also accused of being the Kremlin's supervisor in Africa through his connections to the Wagner group of mercenaries. This time, the sanctions are aimed at three Russians and two companies involved in Prigozhin's operations in CAR. In a press…