(UHURUNEWS) Why are French troops occupying the streets of Bangui?
Luwezi Kinshasa, Secretary General of the African Socialist International
Published Jan 9, 2014
This time the international press apparatus of white imperialist powers are telling us that the French army has invaded Central Africa Republic (CAR) in order to stop the violence between the African Christian and Muslim community in the country! What childish gibberish!
Imperialist press may be running short of cash, but not short in printing and broadcasting straight lies!
Why have the French invaders and their accomplices of the Chad army decided to overthrow General Francois Bozize who they helped put in power in a 2003 coup against Ange Patasse?
It is clear that Francois Bozize has been ousted from power because he opened up Central Africa Republic resources such as oil and uranium to Chinese and South African companies, which in the long term will inevitably undermine French economic interest and control of CAR.
The presence of the South African army in CAR and around the presidential security cordon of Bozize was a direct curbing of the Chadian army's influence, which used to provide personal security for General Francois Bozize.
Thus, France and the neocolonial army of Chad found common interest in dislodging Francois Bozize from power.
Bozize, like many of the African petty bourgeois leaders on the African continent, attempted to play older imperialists against other emerging economic powers.
Bozize, in his own words explained his fall from power as reported on counterpunch.org on March 28, 2013: "Why did they start raping, killing and hurting the Central African population? We gave them everything. Before giving oil to the Chinese, I met Total [a French oil company] in Paris and told them to take the oil, nothing happened, I gave oil to the Chinese and it became a problem. I sent counselor Maidou in Paris for the Uranium dossier, they refused. I finally gave it to the South Africans..."
The French are busy developing work to mine uranium in Bakouma, some 900 km (560 miles) from Bangui. Some 75 percent of French electricity comes from uranium, and it is reported that at least 25 percent comes from African uranium in Niger alone.
How do you solve a religious conflict? What does religion have to do with mines? Because, one of the first things the rebel soldiers did was to secure the control of mines! It is not a religious question? It is an economic war.
Central African Republic is known to have oil, uranium, diamond, copper, timber etc... It has a wealthy geology. If you look at all the wars in Africa, they are all wars on countries with a lot of wealth underground.
It was reported on March 28, 2013 here on Uhurunews.com that, "It is difficult to believe that a country larger than France and as vast as Texas has less than 500km of paved roads... The Central African Republic is rich in gold, diamonds, wood, etc. The economy of the CAR is dominated by Air France, Bollore (logistic and river transport), Castel (drinks and sugar), Total (storage and distribution of the petroleum products), CFAO for the automobile distribution, etc."
Francois Hollande has sent his troops to maintain French ruling class control of the economy in CAR, which does not serve us but France and the rest of Europe.
Victorious Seleka rebels to end contracts with Chinese and prioritize relations with white imperialist rulers
Michael Djotodia, the leader of Seleka, the victorious alliance of the rebel forces backed by Chad's government has already announced that he will review the CAR's mining and oil contracts with China, signed by the ousted Bozize government, "to see whether things were badly done, to try and sort them out."
Further, Djotodia declared that he would invite the former colonial powers in CAR - France, along with the United States - to retrain the official military, which was defeated by Seleka last weekend.
"We will rely on the European Union to help us develop this country," Mr. Djotodia said, adding that about 80 percent of the country's foreign aid has come from the bloc. "When we have been sick, the European Union was at our bedside. It will not abandon us now."
This reminds us of Laurent Nkunda, one of the leading officers of the Rwanda army involved in proxy wars in Congo in 2008, who always claimed that he took arms to defend the interest of persecuted Tutsi population, but after he took control of parts of the Kivu, in Eastern Congo, he demanded that president Kabila cancel all agreements made with the Chinese, which was clearly in defense of the U.S./EU interests against the Chinese, at the expense of Africa.
As the Chinese companies who are resource hungry and looking for markets in neocolonial Africa in exchange for building infrastructure (which the Chinese call win-win), their European imperialist rivals' response is a military one. Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Libya, Mali, and now Sudan and Central Africa Republic - we are seeing the same response, a military aggression to prevent the ongoing shift in the global balance of power at the expense of Europe and U.S. and their allies.
It is imperative that we explain what is happening to us ourselves, with our own analysis and solutions. All imperialist solutions at best can only be reform of imperialism to maintain status quo; otherwise, they are imperialism business as usual.
It is insane to expect the same imperialist who oppressed us for over 500 years to give us the correct narrative of our miserable and painful existence under their inhumane parasitic capitalism.
It is more insane to try to intoxicate our brains with this nonsensical war of confessions in CAR. It is an imperialist war to loot and kill African people for the material development of Europe and North America. Period.
France lives off African nation's labor and resources. Time to put a final end to it
France cannot change its relationship with Africa by its own accord. Those Africans who voted for Francois Hollande to be president because they thought that Hollande the "socialist" was different from Sarkorzy were mistaken! France, a crisis ridden imperialist country, is aggressively fighting to hold on to its stolen loot.
The former French president Charles De Gaulle used to say that France does not have friends but only interests.
According to Paul Melly and Vincent Darracq in "A New Way to Engage? French Policy in Africa from Sarkozy to Hollande":
"France's engagement in Africa is deep. It intervened militarily in the continent 19 times between 1962 and 1995. But gradually, budgetary concerns and a changed strategic climate have encouraged France to adopt a new multilateral approach. Structural changes to the armed forces, including sharp reductions in the size of the military and base closures between 1997 and 2002 meant France could no longer maintain the dominance that it had in the 1960s and 1970s. Still, according to the French Ministry of Defence, in February 2013, of 10,025 military personnel deployed overseas, 4,610 were in West Africa, 2,180 in central Africa and 270 were involved in anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden."
There are about 250,000 French people living in Africa, with at least 10,000 French living in Gabon, which has less than 2,000,000 people. They do not live in poverty like African people in Cape Town, Detroit or Israel. They live in luxury!
The French imperialism out of Mali article in January 2013 stated, “With France's social programs consuming 56 percent of its GDP, Hollande is looking to the neocolonies to solve its economic woes. Hollande is on the same path as his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkorzy, who led the invasion of Libya in conjunction with U.S. military forces from AFRICOM.
"Just before France conceded to African demands for independence in the 1960s, it carefully organized its former colonies (CFA countries) in a system of "compulsory solidarity" which consisted of obliging the 14 African states to put 65 percent of their foreign currency reserves into the French Treasury, plus another 20 percent for financial liabilities. This means these 14 African countries only ever have access to 15 percent of their own money! If they need more they have to borrow their own money from the French at commercial rates! And this has been the case since the 1960s."
We should also remind our people and friends, that if there is crisis in CAR, Mali, Ivory Coast, Senegal and the rest of the 14 African countries which use the CFA currency, it is because of the French government's devaluation of the CFA overnight by 100 percent in January 1994.
This calculated and cold crime by imperialist France to save itself from collapsing was like striking Africa with a nuclear bomb, as the price of every commodity doubled overnight because of the French engineered devaluation.
So we know why the French imperialist bloodsuckers are sending their troops in CAR. We also know what we must to do to defeat French imperialism.
This quote from the ASI Main Resolution that everyone must read and can be found at asiuhuru.org, calls on us to draw the line in the sand between the African petty bourgeoisie, the ally of white imperialism, and the African working class and its ally of the poor peasantry:
"We must be clear that the international organization necessary to liberate and unify Africa and our scattered nation is a political party in the form of the African Socialist International. With one party rooted in the African working class and allied with the poor peasantry we will have captured the best aspect of the Garvey Movement of the twentieth century... However, unlike Garvey's UNIA, we will have an organization conscious of itself as a revolutionary instrument in the hands of the African working class. This will also distinguish our organization from such formations as those that have been characterized as 'fronts,' 'people's organizations,' 'congresses,' 'unions,' 'conventions'..."
That is why the African Socialist International is calling on all African people everywhere to get on board by joining us, to complete the work of Kwame Nkrumah: the liberation and unification of the oppressed and dispersed African nation.
Stop parasitic capitalism in Africa!
Let's organize! Take the first step!
Join the African Liberation Committee in Europe today!!!
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(SF BAY VIEW, AUDIO) Samantha Power’s latest crusade: Central African Republic
December 25, 2013
by Ann Garrison
“For [Samantha] Power, the United States is the solution, not the problem.” – Ed Herman, “The Cruise Missile Left: Samantha Power and the Genocide Gambits”
KPFA Evening News, broadcast Dec. 22, 2013
Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., has announced that the U.S. will spend $100 million to support the French intervention in the Central African Republic.
Transcript
KPFA Evening News Anchor Anthony Fest: Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, spoke yesterday in Bangui, the capital of the war torn Central African Republic, on the border of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo this week. Power invoked conflict in Rwanda, the Balkans and Syria as she announced that the U.S. will spend $100 million to support the French military intervention now underway in the Central African Republic, where 1,000 people were killed on one day, Dec. 6, in the country’s capital city. The total number of civilian casualties is unknown; hundreds of thousands of people are reported to be internally displaced and 20,000 more have crossed the country’s borders and become refugees.
US Ambassador to UN Samantha Power, Burundian soldiers transported to Central African Republic by US 1213
Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., speaking with Burundian soldiers transported to the CAR by Pentagon air cargo carriers.
The French and the U.S. appear to be working together in Central African Republic. There are now 1,600 French soldiers on the ground in the CAR, but other European nations have declined to support the effort. The U.S. is providing Pentagon resources, including cargo carriers to transport U.S.-trained African troops from Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Central African Republic. U.S. Special Forces have been on the ground with Ugandan troops since 2011, reportedly to hunt East African warlord Joseph Kony.
KPFA’s Ann Garrison is live in our studio with this report on the situation in the Central African Republic.
KPFA/Ann Garrison: Anadolu News Agency reporter Hassam Isilow had been on the ground in the Central African Republic for several weeks when U.S. U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power arrived in the capital Bangui and made this statement:
Samantha Power: Lots of people in our own government lived through Rwanda, lived through the crimes in the Balkans, are living now through the crimes in Syria. Every day we are thinking about which tools can we employ in order to try to prevent atrocity in the first instance and then again these cycles of violence that very quickly can take hold.
KPFA/Ann Garrison: Many writers, including “Manufacturing Consent” co-authors Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman, have criticized Samantha Power’s perception of American exceptionalism and responsibility to prevent genocide and mass atrocities and her rendition of the U.S. role in both Rwanda and the Balkans.
Hassan Isilow
Anadolu News Agency reporter Hassan Isilow spoke to KPFA from on the ground in Bangui.
Whether Power is accurate in her perception or honest about U.S. motivation for supporting the French intervention, the CAR is already engulfed in violence that could become worse, as Hassan Isilow described:
Hassan Isilow: I’m in Bangui, which is the capital city of the Central African Republic. There’s a lot of chaos in the capital city. In the past two, three days we’ve seen a lot of sectarian violence where people from the Christian anti-Balaka movement attacked the Muslim area and killed about 29 people. The violence has been on both sides.
There’s a group known as the ex-Seleka fighters. The ex-Seleka fighters belong to the current president, President Michel Djotodia, and they actually brought him into power, and some people claim that they come from Chad and other neighboring countries. When they came to power, this is the first time they’ve had a Muslim president in the history of independence of 53 years.
And many people here didn’t have a problem at first when Michel Djotodia took over power. But it’s believed that the French and other politicians started inciting the public, telling them the Muslims are taking their country, and of course they saw people looking very different from them, people with Sudanese faces, people with Chadian faces.
And of course this never went well with the people. People took the advice, allegedly from the French and from the local politicians, and they started fighting between Muslims and Christians. And the Muslims and Christians, who had lived in harmony for a very long time, got caught up in this violence.
KPFA/Ann Garrison: That was Anadolu News Agency reporter Hassan Isilow speaking from the capital of the Central African Republic. Today he reported that Muslim leaders of the former Seleka rebel group who are now in power had “given French troops a one-week ultimatum to end what they described as French support to self-styled Christian militias” before they rebel against the French and divide CAR into a Muslim north and Christian south.
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Christians gather in a makeshift camp for internally displaced people at the airport in Bangui on Dec. 13. More than 30,000 people have gathered there. Planes serve as clotheslines and shelter for children sleeping on the ground. – Photo: Jerome Delay, AP
Isilow also reported what he called “a more hopeful story about the country’s top Christian and Muslim religious leaders joining hands to try to prevent their country from sliding further into the abyss of sectarian violence.” The archbishop told Isilow that Muslims and Christians have lived together in harmony for many years. Another Catholic leader, Father Innocent Awulu in a suburb of Bangui, also said that Christians and Muslims had been living in peace and said that he believes the conflict is fundamentally political rather than religious.
The Central African Republic is rich in oil and diamonds, and uranium resources at its Bakouma mine are the most dense in Sub Saharan Africa. France holds the right to exploit the Bakouma mine, but the mine’s administrative compound was attacked by an armed group in June 2012. Most of the citizens of the CAR are subsistence farmers and many thousands are also artisenal diamond miners.
The U.S. State Department reports that a message from President Obama has been broadcast over radio stations in the Central African Republic, and that they have put the Djotodia government established by the Seleka rebels on notice. The State Department also said that no members of the current transitional government would be allowed to run in the next election.
For Pacifica, KPFA and Afrobeat Radio, I’m Ann Garrison.
Oakland writer Ann Garrison writes for the San Francisco Bay View, Global Research, Colored Opinions, Black Star News and her own website, Ann Garrison, and produces for AfrobeatRadio on WBAI-NYC, KPFA Evening News and her own YouTube Channel, AnnieGetYourGang. She can be reached at ann@afrobeatradio.com. This story first appeared on her website. If you want to see Ann Garrison’s independent reporting continue, please contribute on her website at anngarrison.com.
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(GLOBALRESEARCH) Who is Behind the Military Coup in Bangui?
Pro French Central African Republic Coup Leaders Scrap Chinese Oil Deals
By Thomas Gaist
Global Research, April 01, 2013
World Socialist Web Site
Over 500 French troops are deployed in Bangui, Central African Republic, supporting the new regime headed by Michel Djotodia, heading the Seleka rebel coalition that recently ousted CAR President François Bozizé.
Djotodia has announced that he is dissolving parliament and suspending the 2004 constitution. “To this effect, we have decided to guide the destiny of the people of the Central African Republic during this transitional period of three years… During this transition period which will lead us to free, credible and transparent elections, I will legislate by decree,” he said.
Djotodia has already announced that he will review the CAR’s mining and oil contracts with China, signed by the Bozizé government, “to see whether things were badly done, to try and sort them out.”
Further, Djotodia declared that he would invite the former colonial power in CAR, France, along with the United States, to retrain the official military, which was defeated by Seleka last weekend.
“We will rely on the European Union to help us develop this country,” Mr. Djotodia said, adding that about 80 per cent of the country’s foreign aid has come from the bloc. “When we have been sick, the European Union was at our bedside. It will not abandon us now.”
Effectively, Djotodia is preparing to hand over the key resources of the CAR’s economy to European imperialism.
The situation facing the CAR population remains disastrous. Most of Bangui lacks running water and electricity, and the single functioning hospital is still taking in 30 wounded per day. The United Nations reports that food shortages affecting tens of thousands are gripping the country, and prices of staple goods such as cassava and rice have tripled.
Already, life expectancy in CAR is barely over 40 years, with only 40 percent literacy and skyrocketing HIV rates.
The takeover of Bangui by the Seleka rebels with French and US support represents the most recent stage in the unfolding recolonization of Africa by the imperialist powers that came to the fore with the 2011 NATO war in Libya. It testifies to the reactionary character of the ethnic-based politics of various bourgeois and petty-bourgeois factions in Africa, which are constantly manipulated by the imperialist powers amid the growing impoverishment of the workers and rural masses.
Seleka (meaning “union”) is a coalition of dissident factions that formed initially in September of 2012. Their decision to seize Bangui came in violation of the Libreville Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which they had signed with the government in 2008.
The coup by Seleka forces has placed the CAR at the center of a struggle for influence between the United States, France, South Africa and China.
As they advanced on Bangui, then held by forces loyal to Bozizé, Seleka fighters encountered a South African National Defense Force (SANDF) detachment and attacked the outnumbered South Africans, killing 13 and wounding 28.
The future course of South African military policy in CAR remains unclear. An anonymous senior Ugandan officer said, “The intention of the South Africans is to reorganize themselves and then redeploy massively in CAR and topple these rebels. They were humiliated and they want to avenge.”
South African media are reporting that SANDF troops are staging in Uganda for a “new mission” in CAR. A South African representative, Col. Selby Moto, cautioned against such a view, however, claiming that South African troops are merely waiting in Uganda “until the decision to reinforce or withdraw” is made by the South African government in Pretoria.
“This is complete disaster for South Africa,” Thierry Vircoulon, Central African specialist at the International Crisis Group, told Reuters. “They did not at all understand they were backing the wrong horse.”
The defeat of the South African forces and the theft of Chinese oil purchases were particularly provocative and humiliating, coming in the midst of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) conference in Durban. Chinese president Xi Jinping said China would “intensify, not weaken” its commitment to Africa, including the extension of $20 billion in credit over the next two years.
The imperialist backing for Seleka is merely one component of a grand strategy aiming to contain China’s growing influence throughout the African continent. By 2011, the volume of Sino-African trade reached $166 billion, with African exports to China topping $90 billion. At the time of the Seleka takeover, Xi was touring the African continent, where he signed agreements with many resource-rich African countries.
The United States has reacted by issuing mild criticisms of the Seleka takeover. On Saturday, Washington released a statement asserting that the national unity government led by Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye is the “only legitimate government” of CAR. It did not, however, call for Bozizé’s reinstatement or criticize the theft of oil resources purchased by Chinese firms.
Tiangaye is a lawyer and a member of the Human Rights League (HRL), a global network of human rights operatives headquartered in Paris and run with financial support from European governments and Washington. Political operatives from the HRL have played a crucial role in helping organize and promote the imperialist agenda in Libya, Syria and elsewhere.
Tiangaye is apparently a trusted instrument of French imperialism, having participated in sensitive trials of African officials who enjoyed French backing but whom Paris subsequently discarded. Selected by CAR dictator Emperor Jean-Bedél Bokassa to defend him at Bokassa’s trial in 1986, he also defended Rwandan officials accused of perpetrating the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
Labels: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, WAR CRIMES
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Seleka Rebels Form New Government in the Central African Republic
France deploys additional troops while leader consolidates power
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Global Research, April 01, 2013
Pan-African News Wire
Michel Djotodia, the leader of the Seleka Coalition, which seized power in the Central African Republic of Bangui on March 24, has established a new government largely composed of opposition figures. Francois Bozize, who was ousted in the military coup, has fled the country and is reported to be in the West African state of Cameroon.
One key opposition leader, Nicolas Tiangaye, is the prime minister, while Djotodia has also named himself as minister of defense in addition to president.Tiangaye was initially named prime minister in January when negotiations between Seleka and the Bozize government resulted in a peace accord that was supposed to have created a coalition regime.
However, by March, the Seleka rebels were accusing the Bozize government of not implementing the peace agreement. Rebels began to seize key towns and cities creating panic inside of Bangui.
Djotodia immediately suspended the constitution upon taking Bangui and reappointed Tiangaye as the prime minister. Within the new government, there are at least nine members of the Seleka group along with eight others from opposition parties. Only one portfolio was given to a figure associated with the Bozize government.
Djotodia was born in the northeast region of the country at Vakaga. He is Islamic, the first Muslim leader of the country since it gained independence from France in 1960.
Only 15 percent of the CAR population is Muslim. The majority of the country’s population is Christian.
Djotodia studied in the former Soviet Union and is fluent in Russian. He reportedly lived in the Soviet Union for a decade where he married and had children.
The new leader served as a diplomat for the CAR in Sudan. He was the president of the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity and the Patriotic Action Group for the Liberation of the Central African Republic.
During 2006, while living in Benin, he was arrested by the authorities along with his spokesman AbakarSabon. They were held for over a year and released in February 2008 after they decided to join peace talks over the future of the CAR.
Despite claims by Djotodia and the Seleka rebels that they are concerned about the welfare of the people of the CAR and the eradication of corruption, there is no way of knowing whether their presence will improve conditions inside the country. Both Bozize and Djotodia have looked to France and the European Union for assistance.
Bozize had requested the intervention of France to halt the rebel advance. Djotodia has said that he will rely on the EU for the rebuilding of the country.
France enhanced its presence inside the CAR on the eve of the seizure of power by Seleka. There are 500 French troops reportedly stationed at the airport outside the capital.
The London-based Chatham House, an institute that studies international affairs, reported that the actions of Seleka were based purely on ambition. Alex Vines of the African program at Chatham House, said that “All accounts of Seleka are that they have no development vision for CAR. It’s exclusively about redistribution of patrimony from having captured the state.” (Associated Press, April 1)
South African Debate Over Death of Soldiers
At least 13 South African National Defense Forces (SANDF) soldiers were killed in the CAR on March 23 when they attempted to defend the capital from invading Seleka forces. The South Africans were inside the country as part of a peacekeeping operation mandated by the African Union and the regional Economic Community of Central African States.
Subsequent reports issued by the African National Congress (ANC) government of President Jacob Zuma indicated that some 200 SANDF troops fought over 3,000 rebels. The deaths of the SANDF forces in the CAR have sparked debates inside the parliament in South Africa.
The South African Sunday Times and the City Press have carried interviews with SANDF troops which stated that child soldiers were part of the rebel forces during the battle on March 23. The soldiers spoke to these issues on conditions of anonymity reporting that children were killed in the clashes.
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for an investigation of the incident and has made allegations that the ANC government had deployed troops to the CAR to protect mining interests. The ANC has rejected these allegations and threatened legal action against the DA.
In a statement issued by the ANC on April 1, it said that the Mail & Guardian newspaper engaged in malicious reporting that was
“calculated to damage the image of the ANC and to sow distrust in noble decisions of the South African government that derive from public and transparent policies. …
What is most disturbing with the accusation are blatant lies that suggest that a company linked to the ANC has business interest in CAR. We have established that the said company has no business activity in CAR. While their accusation is false, we believe South Africans have a right to do business anywhere in the world including the continent of Africa.” (Mail & Guardian, April 1)
The seizure of power by rebels in the CAR is following a worrisome trend on the continent where coups have taken place in Mali and Guinea-Bissau over the last year. In Mali, a coup led by a Pentagon-trained officer resulted in further instability in the north of the country and the intervention of France and other imperialist states inside the West African state.
In neighboring Niger, the U.S. has established a drone station and is deploying hundreds of Special Forces. The dispatching of troops to Niger is part of a broader policy which will see the presence of 3,500 more U.S. troops on the African continent in an effort designed to ostensibly “fight terrorism and piracy.”
The U.S., Canada and other European states have mining interests in the CAR. The country produces diamonds, gold, copper, iron ore, manganese uranium and graphite.
Despite the mining interests most people earn their livelihood through small scale farming. The people largely remain poor despite increased mining activities inside the country.
Abayomi Azikiwe is Editor, Pan-African News Wire
Labels: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, SOUTH AFRICA
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AU warns against CAR coup
Tuesday, 01 January 2013 00:00
ADDIS ABABA — The African Union has warned against any attempt to seize power by force in the Central African Republic. The AU announced in a statement yesterday that Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chairperson of the AU Commission, reiterated the total rejection of any attempt to seize power by force, or the recourse to armed rebellion to further political claims.
The AU says such an attempt poses a serious threat to peace and security in Africa, undermining the on-going democratic process and socio-economic development efforts on the continent.
The chairperson welcomed the reaffirmation by CAR president Francois Bozize to work towards a negotiated solution to the current crisis in his country.
Bozize made the commitment during a visit by AU Chairperson Thomas Yayi Boni on Sunday to Bangui, the capital of CAR.
Dhlamini-Zuma reiterated the unanimous demand by the international community for the CAR armed groups to put an immediate end to their military offensive and to commit themselves, in good faith, to a dialogue that would include all political stakeholders in the country, with the view to finding a lasting solution to the recurring instability experienced by the CAR.
She warned the CAR armed groups against any seizure of power trough illegal means, which, if it were to occur, would lead to the automatic suspension of the participation of CAR in AU activities. It would also lead to sanctions and other measures against the perpetrators of such an unconstitutional change of government and their total isolation, Dhlamini-Zuma warned.
She expressed her deep appreciation to Yayi for his sustained efforts to expedite the search for a political solution to the crisis in CAR and his unwavering commitment to peace on the continent.
She also reiterated the AU’ support to the decisions taken by the Extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) held in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, on December 21, which provide a viable framework for a speedy way-out from the crisis. — Xinhua.
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