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Members of the presidential guard in Bangui, January 4, 2021. (Illustrative photo)
The Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of State for Foreign Relations of Angola, responsible for monitoring the roadmap for peace in the Central African Republic, visited the country on Friday 14 January to take stock of its implementation.
The roadmap for peace in the Central African Republic was signed in Luanda, capital of Angola, in September 2021, under the auspices of the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). This visit took place at a time when this roadmap is in a “ total stalemate ».
“This roadmap provided for the opening of negotiations with the armed groups and that simultaneously there would also be a republican dialogue. So, in fact, it provided for a double negotiation with the armed opposition and with the democratic opposition. None of this could be implemented last year. The situation on the ground has remained the same, with clashes continuing, and therefore there has been no ceasefire or cessation of hostilities. And then, on the side of the Republican dialogue, well as the great figures of the democratic opposition were intimidated, last year, they all fled the country. Currently, there are hardly any major Central African opposition figures left in the Central African Republic. It’s a total stalemate since no conditions are in place for this roadmap to move forward and produce something,” declared, to RFI, Thierry Vircoulon, associate researcher at the Africa center of Ifri.
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