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Tender for control of timber exports fuels intrigue

Since SGS announced its departure, several companies have been lining up to take its place, including a new firm whose alleged links with the former head of the Swiss multinational's CAR subsidiary have been causing a stir.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 25.07.2025

Burundi prepares to head ECCAS commission

At the end of August, a new commission chaired by Burundi will take office within the Economic Community of Central African States, as the sub-regional institution struggles to gain momentum.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 23.07.2025

Bangui steps up pressure on Tamoil RCA

Tamoil CAR, formerly known as Total Centrafrique, is on the brink of collapse. Bangui, April 2023. © Barbara Debout / AFP

Subscribers only Politics 22.07.2025

Canada's CVMR begins satellite mapping of lucrative new mining sites

After signing a memorandum of understanding with the government, the Toronto-based company has tasked its subsidiary specialised in satellite imaging to identify new sites rich in copper, gold, coltan and nickel.

Subscribers only Mining 22.07.2025

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Bangui balks at Moscow's Africa Corps deal

Faustin-Archange Touadéra meets Vladimir Putin in Moscow, 16 January 2025. © Eugenia Novozhenina / Pool / EFE / EPA / MaxPPP

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 21.07.2025

Tensions within the Fulani community after the peace accords

Now that the UPC and 3R rebel groups have signed a peace agreement with the government, their respective leaders, Ali Darass and Bobo Sembé, intend to compete with their former ally, the Minister of Livestock, Hassan Bouba.

Subscribers only Defence 16.07.2025

Russian fuel delivery bogged down by logistical problems

Russia's donation of fuel to Bangui has turned into a proper headache. Between delivery delays, opaque management and tension between ministries, fuel that was supposed to ease the crisis has instead rekindled shortages.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders, Politics 15.07.2025

Touadéra's cunning plan to combine electoral polls

Scheduled to take place at the end of August, the local elections that have been eagerly awaited for nearly 40 years have once again been postponed. Instead, the new idea is to hold these and other elections before the end of this year.

Subscribers only Politics 11.07.2025

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra casts his ballot in the presidential and legislative elections in Bangui, in December 2020.

Political non-profits kick into gear upstream of Touadéra campaign

A meeting in support of President Touadéra's candidacy will be held in mid-July in Paris, on the initiative of non-profit Échos Touadéra, managed by the presidency. Such initiatives have mushroomed over recent months.

Subscribers only Politics 10.07.2025

Last chance saloon for AU commissioner posts

The sub-region is at last set to put forward the joint candidates to take up its two vacant commissioner positions at the African Union. The names submitted up until now have all been thrown out by the Panel of Eminent Africans committee.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 09.07.2025

3R and UPC rebels lay down their arms for good

Rebel leaders Ali Darass and "General" Sembe Bobo will formalise the dissolution of their political and military movements at a ceremony scheduled for 10 July in Bangui, orchestrated by Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadéra.

Free access Defence, Diplomacy 07.07.2025

Ali Darass, leader of the Union for Peace in Central Africa (UPC) armed group, in Bangui in February 2020.

Boganda High School disaster: power company Enerca under pressure

The management team of the public utility was arrested the day after an electrical transformer explosion killed more than 20 people. Amid failing infrastructure, internal conflicts, and ministerial sidelining, Touadéra is attempting to bring a complex crisis under control.

Subscribers only Politics 03.07.2025

Touadéra to replace public prosecutor

The CAR head of state is about to replace the current director of public prosecutions with the presiding judge of the commercial court, Guy Martial Damanguere.

Subscribers only Politics 01.07.2025

Touadéra wins over rebel leaders in bid to secure re-election

Three warlords have agreed to disband their movements and join the peace and reconciliation process. This is the result of intense negotiations conducted in N'Djamena by the CAR president's emissaries.

Subscribers only Politics 30.06.2025

Central African Republic's President Faustin-Archange Touadéra in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in July 2023.

Former adviser to ex-president Bozizé resurfaces in Brazzaville

Bertin Béa, former VP of Kwa na Kwa, is in Brazzaville looking for funds to prepare his return to Bangui, after several years in exile in France.

Subscribers only Politics 27.06.2025

Touadéra plans his return to Bangui

After four days in hospital, the CAR president has seen his state of health stabilise. He left the medical establishment on the morning of 24 June.

Subscribers only Politics 25.06.2025

Wagner enlists former rebels to regain control in the southeast

The Russian paramilitary group has deployed former rebels demobilised by Livestock Minister Hassan Bouba to take on Zande militiamen in the southeast of the country, where the security crisis continues to worsen.

Subscribers only Defence 24.06.2025

Touadéra's emergency hospitalisation in Brussels causes concern in Bangui

The president has been in Belgium for emergency medical treatment since 21 June, having been hastily evacuated from Bangui. The resulting, worrying power vacuum comes just a few months before the presidential election, in a particularly tense political, security and diplomatic context.

Subscribers only Politics 23.06.2025

CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, in Serbia, 29 February 2024.

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Tender for control of timber exports fuels intrigue

Burundi prepares to head ECCAS commission

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Canada's CVMR begins satellite mapping of lucrative new mining sites

Spotlight
Bangui balks at Moscow's Africa Corps deal

Tensions within the Fulani community after the peace accords

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Last chance saloon for AU commissioner posts

3R and UPC rebels lay down their arms for good

Boganda High School disaster: power company Enerca under pressure

Touadéra to replace public prosecutor

Touadéra wins over rebel leaders in bid to secure re-election

Former adviser to ex-president Bozizé resurfaces in Brazzaville

Touadéra plans his return to Bangui

Wagner enlists former rebels to regain control in the southeast

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Tender for control of timber exports fuels intrigue

Burundi prepares to head ECCAS commission

Bangui steps up pressure on Tamoil RCA

Canada's CVMR begins satellite mapping of lucrative new mining sites

Spotlight Bangui balks at Moscow's Africa Corps deal

Tensions within the Fulani community after the peace accords

Russian fuel delivery bogged down by logistical problems

Touadéra's cunning plan to combine electoral polls

Political non-profits kick into gear upstream of Touadéra campaign

Last chance saloon for AU commissioner posts

3R and UPC rebels lay down their arms for good

Boganda High School disaster: power company Enerca under pressure

Touadéra to replace public prosecutor

Touadéra wins over rebel leaders in bid to secure re-election

Former adviser to ex-president Bozizé resurfaces in Brazzaville

Touadéra plans his return to Bangui

Wagner enlists former rebels to regain control in the southeast

Touadéra's emergency hospitalisation in Brussels causes concern in Bangui

The scoop on Bangui's major mining deal with Canada's CVMR

Heads of state Touadéra and Oligui Nguema turn on mining seduction operation in Luanda

Africa Corps faces obstacles before it even moves in

Inner circles The nebulous web of ‘diplomats' around President Touadéra

In trouble in Bangui, livestock minister turns to Moscow

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African Parks raises nearly $5m from sale of carbon credits

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Morocco
The incessant fall of flour milling company Forafric

DRC
Washington deal: intricacies behind Tshisekedi's poker move

Spotlight
Bangui balks at Moscow's Africa Corps deal

Inner circles
The nebulous web of ‘diplomats' around President Touadéra