Central African Republic | October 13, 2022
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The biggest news coming out of Central African Republic in the past week was the runoff election which pitted two former prime ministers against one another. Details of the election, which was held on 14 February, were published by Reuters on 20 February 2016. Faustin-Archange Touadera, a former mathematics professor, won the election by securing 62.71% of the votes.
Yonas Dembele, persecution analyst at World Watch Research, comments: "Touadera has vowed to make peace and reconciliation his priority. A major issue will be the demobilization and integration of the Muslim Seleka and the anti-Balaka militias. Central African Republic has been ravaged by a sectarian civil war in the past three years and president Touadera faces the enormous challenge of reconciling the country"s Muslims and Christians after the horrors of the war. Unless he succeeds, there is the risk that the country will be consumed by the kind of violence and instability which has characterized Central African Republic over the past three years. That would obviously be disastrous for Christians as well as for Muslims in the country."
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