Michel Am-Nondokro Djotodia

Thomas Théophile Timangoua commanded the Presidential Guard under Bozizé from 2003 to 2005 and was also appointed Deputy Army Chief of Staff under interim President Michel Djotodia...

Significantly the critical decisions on South Sudan – the ceasefire signed last week – and CAR – discredited interim President Michel Djotodia was pushed out of office on 9 January – were taken by regional organisations before the AU summit...

Politicians allied to the discredited former President François Bozizé along with ministers most associated with rampant corruption may end up as the main beneficiaries of the power vacuum created by the resignation of Michel Djotodia according to sources in Paris and Bangui...

It was France that took the initiative in securing the removal of Michel Djotodia and the previously well-thought of interim Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye...

MilitiasThe Anti-Balaka militia is a loosely-organised community-based group of young Christians set up to counter the ravages of the Séléka the militia that brought President Michel Djotodia to power in March (AC Vol 54 No 2 Bozizé back from the brink & With Zuma to Bangui & AC Vol 54 No 19 Regional risks rising)...

He landed in the CAR capital Bangui en route from the Nelson Mandela memorial service in South Africa on 10 December to address his troops and meet CAR's military leader Michel Djotodia...

Ousted President François Bozizé was an ally of President Museveni's so the new regime in Bangui led by Michel Djotodia and Séléka is more indulgent towards the LRA which takes advantage of the current chaos...

The dissolution of his Séléka rebel movement by interim President Michel Djotodia may be mostly about his distancing himself from a messy security situation...

However there is not thought to be any centrally organised movement or force militating for Bozizé's return only opportunistic acts of anger and revenge at Séléka whose unpopularity has seriously dented the standing of President Michel Djotodia...

Originally Séléka leaders Michel Am-Nondokro Djotodia and the CPJP leader ‘General’ Noureddin Adam promised Déby in Ndjamena to prevent any of the rebels of Chadian origin from challenging him...

Several delegations wanted to prevent the rubber-stamping of the violent seizure of power by the self-appointed President Michel Djotodia...