script.setAttribute("async", true); [4][5], This militia formed in the Central African Republic after the rise to power of Michel Djotodia in 2013. Originally, they were local self-defense groups. Among them were three candidates who had run under the colours of the United Hearts Movement (MCU), President Touadera’s party, and three anti-balaka leaders… Alfred Yekatom was designated for being a leader of an Anti-Balaka armed group that has, or whose members have, threatened the peace, security, or stability of the CAR. Most Seleka members were Muslim, chiefly because Islam is the more prevalent religion in the marginalized northern areas where rebel groups sprang up. Le cas des deux leaders du mouvement anti-balaka, notamment le député Alfred Yékatom Rombhot et de l’ancien coordonnateur général des anti-balaka, Patrice Edouard Ngaïssona, qui vient d’être arrêté à Paris, le mercredi dernier, en témoigne bien le complot qui se prépare depuis l’extérieur dans le seul but de déstabiliser les institutions légitimement établies. Additionally, Yekatom’s forces operate armed checkpoints to illegally tax vehicles travelling on the roads and waterways from Bangui to Cameroon. On August 12, 2016, Hissene and a group of armed men traveling north from Bangui engaged CAR security forces in multiple gunfights. Les anti-balaka sont des milices d’auto-défense mises en place par des paysans en République centrafricaine. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on 21 August 2015 designated Central African Republic (CAR) militia leaders pursuant to Executive Order (EO. [réf. Groups that made up the anti-Balaka and the Séléka – whose former leader, Michel Djotodia, also returned to CAR last year after a lengthy exile – have since splintered into multiple, smaller factions – 14 of which signed a peace deal with the government in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, in February 2019. Two ministers in the government of ousted president Francois Bozize, Patrice Edouard Ngaissona and Joachin Kokate, claim to be the anti-balaka’s national-level political and military coordinators, respectively. Les audiences de ce procès ont été retransmises intégralement à la radio et à la télévision. Rien ne va plus entre l’ancien leader anti-Balaka Maxime Mokom, devenu ministre du Désarmement, et le Premier ministre Firmin Ngrebada. Yekatom also used 153 children as fighters in his group before handing them over to the UN in August 2014. Central African Republic's Former Leader to Run for President. var setNptTechAdblockerCookie = function(adblocker) { script.setAttribute("onerror", "setNptTechAdblockerCookie(true);"); Sectarian violence resulted in an estimated 500 deaths between 5-7 December 2013 and an estimated 200 deaths from 20-26 December 2013. script.setAttribute("src", "//www.npttech.com/advertising.js"); De l’autre, à l’acharnement. [10] With the disbanding of the army by Djotodia, many army members joined the militia, boosting their numbers and helping train them. Il est déjà un leader qui compte au sein de la mouvance. We just need to target those organizing theft, looting and extrajudicial killings. 22/12/2017 En Centrafrique, sur les traces de Bokassa Ier. Le 23 décembre, des tirs tchadiens ont fait plusieurs morts à Bangui. Appris par Jeune Afrique, de forts soupçons pèsent en effet sur le rôle qu'a joué dans la guerre civile centrafricaine cet ancien "coordinateur" auto-proclamé des anti-balaka. The UN’s peacekeeping mission in the CAR, the UN’s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), eventually captured some of the men, but Hissene and several others escaped. “Today’s action underscores our ongoing efforts to target those responsible for fueling violence and human rights abuses in the Central African Republic.”. In a warning to those who may threaten the peace, stability and security of the Central African Republic, on 13 May 2014 the United States imposed sanctions on five individuals who are contributing to the terrible violence there. D’habitude, les élections au Comité e Mais dans les mois qui suivent, Andilo monte encore en puissance. Whether the anti-balaka leaders are pursuing a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing or exacting abusive collective punishment against the Muslim population [in response to the Seleka’s atrocities], the end result is clear: the disappearance of longstanding Muslim communities. 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