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2023-12-28 Africa Subsaharan
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Wagner PMC in the Battle for Bangui
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Text taken from a blog post on bootsy.to
[Boosty] How FACA, together with the Wagner PMC, stopped militants on the approaches to the capital of the Central African Republic
by Commissioner Yarrick, Artem Blinov, Sergei Chemekov.
Continued from Page 4
The winter of 2020/2021 brought with it new challenges for the soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Central African Republic (FACA). Against the background of the stabilization of the situation in the country and the strengthening of the military-strategic component of the army thanks to cooperation with the instructors of the Wagner PMC, Western players in African politics were eager to wrest the CAR out of the orbit of Russian influence. Having recruited mercenaries from Chad and other African countries more dependent on French colonial policy as the main forces, placing militants who refused reconciliation with the CAR authorities at the front of the new coalition and installing the former head of the CAR François Bozizé as a puppet president, the French curators decided to turn it over in one fell swoop. the situation in the country in their own direction, convenient for them.
In order to destroy all the initiatives of the authorities and Russian specialists, the militants of the newly formed “Coalition of Patriots for Change” (CPC) needed to go through the partially government-controlled Central African Republic and storm the country’s capital, the city of Bangui. The reason for radical action was the holding of presidential elections in the Central African Republic, in which citizens cast an overwhelming majority of votes for the current head of the country, Faustin-Archange Touadera. However, the militants, who planned to overthrow the government following the example of any other African country, did not take into account the fact that now they were facing another CAR army. Trained and trained by instructors from the Wagner PMC, men and women, together with their teachers, met the militants on the outskirts of the capital and repelled the threat of a new conflict in Central Africa.
The head of the military-political Telegram channel Astra Militarum talks about who and why tried to carry out a military coup in the Central African Republic, how African soldiers, with the support of their instructors from the Wagner PMC, stopped the enemy’s march to Bangui, and why Central Africa thanks Russian specialists Commissioner Yarrick , Africanist journalist Artem Blinov and war correspondent Sergei Chemekov .
DELICATE BALANCE.
As we learned from the previous part about the adventures of the Russian “Orchestra” in Central Africa , by 2020 the situation in the CAR began to rapidly improve. The government of the country, led by Faustin-Archange Touadera, relying on the stabilization and modernization of the state in cooperation with Russia, was able to extinguish the sluggish civil war and begin a gradual turn of the economy and life in general towards peaceful development.
The training of FACA army units, which since 2018 has been conducted by Russian instructors from the Wagner PMC, has significantly increased the morale of Central African soldiers and given them key skills to defend the country from any external attacks. In the first two years of operation, the center in Berengo trained about 4 thousand military personnel and about 500 law enforcement officers, who eventually became part of the elite of the CAR army.
From a political point of view, the situation in the CAR was stabilized by the efforts of the government, but retained a number of pitfalls. The adoption of the Khartoum Declaration, signed by representatives of the country's government and key paramilitary groups through the mediation of the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the subsequent negotiations on a peace agreement gave the CAR hope for the future.
A significant part of the former militants laid down their arms or joined the army, and their leaders became part of the new unified government in order to represent the interests of those circles of the population of the Central African Republic from which they come. At the same time, a certain part of the country’s paramilitary groups remained neutral to the changes taking place in the country, and some even accepted the terms of the game, hoping to seize the levers of governing the country at a convenient moment.
In addition, after the truce and the amnesty proclaimed by the CAR authorities, representatives of political forces who had previously been at the head of the state and were eager to continue the struggle, including for leadership positions, began to return to the country. Thus, in December 2019, after six years of exile, ex-President Francois Bozizé returned to Bangui - he came to power in 2003 as a result of a coup d'état and was also overthrown as a result of a coup in 2013. On the same days, Bozizé’s direct opponent, Michel Djotodia, also returned to Bangui in connection with the amnesty announced by the CAR authorities.
Both former heads of state announced that they do not intend to retire - but will continue their political careers. Moreover, elections for the head of state were scheduled for the next 2020 in the CAR, and Bozizé and Djotodia planned to compete for the presidency with Faustin-Archange Touadera. Immediately after his return, Bozize made a statement about his intention to fight for the exclusion of Central Africa from the UN sanctions list, which created grounds for speculation about his possible desire to run for president.
The appearance of two former presidents in the country who returned from exile and had connections with French politicians, especially against the backdrop of the upcoming elections, meant that, whatever the outcome of events, the presidential campaign could hold good prospects for the Fifth Republic. By this time, the CAR had broken off diplomatic relations with France - however, Paris steadily continued to interfere in the affairs of a sovereign power, still considering this region a zone of its geopolitical and economic interests. French politicians waged an aggressive campaign, trying to put pressure on Bangui for cooperation with Russia and for the legal activities of the Wagner PMC in the country. And the nomination of new candidates for the presidential elections in the Central African Republic gave France a slight chance to change the situation in the country in its favor.
Moreover, both in the event of Bozize’s victory, and in the event of defeat - and in this case, the curators of the future coup had their own plan.
ON THE THRESHOLD OF HELL
Beginning in 2020, events began to occur over and over again in the CAR that made it clear that someone intended to undermine the situation in the country to the point of inciting a new round of civil war. In January 2020, inter-ethnic and inter-religious clashes broke out between the Séléka and the Anti-Balaka in the Haute-Kotto prefecture in the east of the Central African Republic. In particular, militants of the two groups began fighting for control of the city of Bria, the central population center of the prefecture, as well as diamond mines located throughout Haute-Kotto. In just four days of fighting, at least 50 people were killed as a result of intercommunal clashes, and this is only a superficial figure, since some of the bodies had already been buried by the families of the victims by the time the count was made.
In addition to the Séléka and the Anti-Balaka, other groups that have joined the peace agreements are beginning to rise up, notably the Union for Peace in Central Africa (UPC), led by Ali Darassa, and the Return, Restoration and Rehabilitation ( 3R) under the leadership of Abbas Sidiki. On June 5, 2020, 3R leader Abbas Sidiki announced the suspension of participation in the Khartoum Agreement and the mobilization of his supporters in Bouar (Nana-Mambere prefecture) and Bozum (Houham-Pende prefecture).
Both local residents and FACA and MINUSCA units were attacked by the 3R group, and UN peacekeeping contingents from other countries often showed low effectiveness. Thus, during the 3R attack on June 9 in the village of Pugol on a MINUSCA base, the attackers managed to seize the peacekeepers’ weapons. A month later, on July 9, the 3R group announced it had stopped attacks on civilians and was ready to return to compliance with the peace agreement. This was preceded by a statement about the unification of the groups of Abbas Sidiki and Ali Darassa, as well as rumors about the liquidation of the leader of 3R.
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