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Central African Republic

André Kolingba

Date of Birth: 12 August 1936
Place of Birth: Bangui
Died: 7 February 2010


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Bozizé's win

Bozizé's new Kwa na Kwa movement has shallow roots compared to old forces like the Rassemblement Démocratique Centrafricain of ex-President André Kolingba the main voice of the southern Yakoma...


A putschist's progress

Former military ruler André Kolingba's support is based among the minority Yakoma population in the south while younger technocratic candidates such as Ziguélé Massi or former Premier Jean-Paul Ngoupandé may lack appeal outside their regional strongholds (although these should deliver parliamentary seats)...


Not warring but warning

André Kolingba - who was warmly welcomed home from Uganda where he fled after the failure of his 2001 coup attempt...


Our friends in the north

He is accused of preparing a second coup allegedly in parallel with the violent failed putsch led by ex-President André Kolingba (in exile in Uganda and condemned to death in absentia)...


Pressing Patassé

Patassé owed even more to his next victims Demafouth and Bozizé (the latter in 1982 mounted a failed coup for him against the then President André Kolingba)...


Plot and panic

Patassé and French officials insist the plot was masterminded by André Kolingba an ex-general and Patassé's unelected predecessor who now leads the largest opposition party...


The Mobutu factor

CAR's domestic problems especially the rivalry between President Ange-Félix Patassé's supporters and André Kolingba's Yakoma people spill across the Oubangui which forms the Congo-CAR border...


Cleaning up

Most opposition members of the Assembly belong to the Yakoma-dominated Rassemblement Démocratique Centrafricain (RDC) which under the regime of General André Kolingba was the only authorised party...


Too close to call

Voters are faced with a familiar array of front-runners: incumbent President Patassé his predecessor General André Kolingba and David Dacko who served twice as head of state...


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