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Last French soldiers exits Central African Republic

Kazim Abdul by Kazim Abdul
December 19, 2022
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The French military has completed it’s withdrawal from the Central African Republic, as the last soldier left the capital Bangui on Thursday at midday.

The last 47 French soldiers of the logistical mission (MISLOG-B) took off from Bangui airport at around 12.15pm (11.15am GMT), aboard a C-130 Hercules cargo plane, becoming the last of a 130-person French contingent to leave the troubled country.

The departure of French troops from the French colony comes almost four months after the exit of French troops from Mali, at the end of the divorce consummated between Paris and the authorities in Bamako, which has also chosen to use the services of Russian instructors to help secure the country.

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“In 2021, when the presence of the private military company Wagner was increasingly intrusive in the country, France considered that the conditions were no longer met for us to continue working for the Central African armed forces,” General François-Xavier Mabin, commander of French forces in Gabon, said during a media briefing.

In the summer of 2021, Paris decided to suspend its military cooperation with Bangui, judged “complicit” in an anti-French campaign orchestrated by Russia. France regularly accuses these paramilitaries of committing abuses against civilians and of having established a regime of “predation” of Central African resources.

Central African Republic: An Elusive Peace?

One of the poorest countries in the world, the Central African Republic has been torn apart by yet another civil war since 2013, when a coalition of armed groups with a Muslim majority, the Séléka, overthrew President François Bozizé. The latter then organised and armed so-called anti-Balaka militias, which are mainly Christian and animist, to try to regain power.

France, a former colonial power, deployed more than 1,600 soldiers to the Central African Republic in 2013 as part of Operation Sangaris, with a green light from the UN, to put an end to inter-community violence, and to help stabilise the country after a coup in 2013 unleashed a civil war along sectarian lines.

Operations Sangaris, was France’s seventh military intervention in the CAR since the country gained independence in 1960.

It wound up in October 2016 after elections, leaving a residual French presence.

The conflict in the Central African Republic, which has been extremely deadly for civilians, peaked in 2018 and then subsided, and both Séléka and anti-balaka have been accused by the UN of committing numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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