Faustin Archange Touadera, whose re-election as Central African Republic president was confirmed on Monday, casts himself as a unifier and man of peace in one of the world s most divided and turbulent countries.
Central African Republic: Constitutional Court says no to war crimes suspects
4 December 2020By Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net
The Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic has dashed the hopes of former president François Bozizé and a dozen other members of armed groups. Their candidacies in the 27 December elections were invalidated. Bozizé, president from 2003 to 2013, is caught up by allegations of war crimes against him.
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Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadera (2nd R) arrives at the Barthélemy Boganda high school polling station in the 1st district in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), on December 27, 2020 during the country’s presidential and legislative elections. – Voting began in the Central African Republic on December 27, 2020, in a key test for one of the world’s most troubled nations. The polls take place after a week of turbulence, marked by accusations of an attempted coup, the brief seizure of the CAR’s fourth-largest town and the dispatch of military personnel by Russia and Rwanda to help its beleaguered government. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP)
By AFP - Agence France Presse December 31, 2020 Print Article Text size
Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadera is on track to win last weekend s elections, his party said on Thursday, a day after the opposition called for the vote to be annulled. Trends. point to a first-round victory by Professor Touadera, reflecting the renewed legitimacy that the people have conferred on our candidate, his campaign director, Simplice Mathieu Sarandji, told a news conference.
A powerful coalition of opposition groups said Wednesday the vote in the violence-torn country had been badly flawed, and called for its cancellation, pure and simple.