Vol 39 No 4 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICCONGO-KINSHASA More contras 20th February 1998 As French troops prepare to leave on 6 April, several hundred of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko’s Division Spéciale Présidentielle have joined forces with CAR ex-President André...
Vol 38 No 20 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC French leave 10th October 1997 As Paris ends military aid for Patasse, he turns to France's bogeyman – Laurent Kabila On 23 September, a team from France's Defence Ministry arrived in Bangui to prepare the French troop withdrawal. The team, led by General Serge Sabathe and still in...
Vol 38 No 17 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICTOGO Free radicals 29th August 1997 Opposition politicians seeking an explanation for the continuing grip on power of some of the more authoritarian Francophone leaders may find guidance from the Nu Health Clinic in...
Vol 38 No 2 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICFRANCE French Fire 17th January 1997 Reports differ about how many people were killed when French soldiers launched a furious retaliatory attack on rebel positions in Bangui on 5 January but it raises more...
Vol 37 No 24 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Echoes of Zaïre 29th November 1996 Bangui's latest mutiny sends a worrying message to its southern neighbour Bearing little comfort from his Paris trip, President Ange-Félix Patassé flew home on 25 November to an army mutiny in its eleventh day, with French troops holding a...
Vol 37 No 12 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Mutineers' mistake 7th June 1996 Two military uprisings within a month have thoroughly destabilised the government of President Ange-Félix Patassé. On 18 May the leaders of the April mutiny, headed by Adjutant (Sergeant...
Vol 37 No 10 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Angel on a pinhead 10th May 1996 A small mutiny caused a big panic and reasserted French influence in Bangui President Ange-Félix Patassé in his Sango-language speeches vaunts his nationalism and his refusal to take orders from Paris, as his predecessors did. Yet when angry soldiers broke out...