2013 Central African Republic Coup D'état

{{Infobox military conflict
, conflict = Central African Republic Civil War
, image =
, caption = Current military situation in Central African Republic
(For a detailed map of the current military situation, see here)
, date = 10 December 2012 – present
({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=12, day1=10, year1=2012)
, place = Central African Republic
(Possible spillover into East Region, Cameroon)Rebels Attack Cameroonian Town Close To Central African Republic
HumAngle, 11 Mar 2021. Accessed 11 Apr 2021.
, result = Ongoing
* Séléka rebel coalition takes power from François Bozizé.
* Fighting between Séléka factions and Anti-balaka militias.
* President Michel Djotodia resigns. Interim government is followed by an elected government.
* De facto split between Ex-Séléka factions controlled north and east and Anti-balaka controlled south and west with a Séléka faction declaring the Republic of Logone.
* Fighting between Ex-Séléka factions FPRC and UPC.
, territory = As of April 2022 government controls more territory than at any point since the war began in 2012.
, combatant1 = {{nowrap, {{flag, Central African Republic
*Central African Armed Forces
{{flagdeco, United Nations MINUSCA (since 2014)
{{flag, Rwanda (since 2020)Rwanda deploys troops to CAR under bilateral arrangement
The East African, 22 Dec 2020. Accessed 28 Dec 2020.

{{flag, Russia (since 2018)
* {{flagicon image} Wagner Group{{Cite news, date=2021-04-29, title=Central African troops and Russian mercenaries accused of abuses in anti-rebel offensive, language=en, work=The New Humanitarian, url=https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2021/4/29/the-human-rights-toll-of-central-african-republics-election-crisis, access-date=2021-05-13
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Formerly:
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MISCA (2013–2014)
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, {{flag, Morocco
, {{flagdeco, Republic of the Congo Congo-Brazzaville
, {{flagdeco, Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC
, {{flag, Gabon
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, {{flag, Equatorial Guinea
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, title = {{flagdeco, Central African Republic Coalition of Patriots for Change (since 2020)
, {{flagdeco, Central African Republic Anti-balaka
, {{flagicon image, Flag of Dar El Kuti Republic.svg MPC
, {{flagdeco, Central African Republic 3R
, {{flagdeco, Central African Republic UPC
, {{flagicon image, Flag of Dar El Kuti Republic.svg FPRC

{{flagdeco, Central African Republic PRNC

{{flagicon image, Flag of Lord's Resistance Army.svg Lord's Resistance Army
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Defunct groups:
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, title = {{flagdeco, Central African Republic Séléka (2012–2014)
, CPJP
, CPSK
, UFDR
, FDPC
, FPR {{flagdeco, Central African Republic RJ (2013–2018)
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic MNLC (2017–2019)
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic MLCJ (2008–2022)
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic RPRC (2014–2022)
, commander1 = {{flagdeco, Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadéra
(since 2016)
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic Catherine Samba-Panza
(2014–2016)
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic François Bozizé
(2012–2013)
{{flagdeco, United Nations Parfait Onanga-Anyanga
{{flagdeco, France Emmanuel Macron
(2017–2021)
{{flagdeco, France François Hollande
(2013–2017)
{{flagdeco, South Africa Jacob Zuma
(2012–2013)
{{flagdeco, Rwanda Paul Kagame
(since 2020)
{{flagdeco, Russia Vladimir Putin
(since 2018)

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(since 2021)
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(2014–15)
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, {{flagdeco, Mauritania Mohamed Ould Ghazouani
(since 2019)
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(since 2020)
, {{flagdeco, Mauritania Ismail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh Sidiya
(2019–20)
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(2018–19)
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(since 2021)
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(2015–21)
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(since 2015)
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, {{flagdeco, Indonesia Joko Widodo
(since 2015)
, {{flagdeco, Senegal Macky Sall
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Senegal Amadou Ba
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, {{flagdeco, Peru Pedro Castillo
(since 2021)
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(2020–21)
, {{flagdeco, Peru Manuel Merino
(2020)
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(2018–20)
, {{flagdeco, Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
(2016–18)
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(2014–16)
, {{flagdeco, Cambodia Norodom Sihamoni
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Cambodia Hun Sen
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, {{flagdeco, Tunisia Kais Saied
(since 2019)
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, {{flagdeco, Tunisia Beji Caid Essebsi
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, {{flagdeco, Tunisia Najla Bouden
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Tunisia Hichem Mechichi
(2020–21)
, {{flagdeco, Tunisia Elyes Fakhfakh
(2020)
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(2016–20)
, {{flagdeco, Tunisia Habib Essid
(2015–16)
, {{flagdeco, Tunisia Mehdi Jomaa
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe
(since 2022)
, {{flagdeco, Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa
(2019–22)
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(2015–19)
, {{flagdeco, Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Serbia Aleksandar Vučić
(since 2017)
, {{flagdeco, Serbia Tomislav Nikolić
(2014–17)
, {{flagdeco, Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Ivory Coast Hamed Bakayoko
(2020–21)
, {{flagdeco, Ivory Coast Amadou Gon Coulibaly
(2017–20)
, {{flagdeco, Ivory Coast Daniel Kablan Duncan
(2014–17)
, {{flagdeco, Jordan Abdullah II
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Jordan Bisher Al-Khasawneh
(since 2020)
, {{flagdeco, Jordan Omar Razzaz
(2018–20)
, {{flagdeco, Jordan Hani Mulki
(2016–18)
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, {{flagdeco, Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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, {{flagdeco, Burkina Faso Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
(since 2022)
, {{flagdeco, Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
(2015–22)
, {{flagdeco, Burkina Faso Michel Kafando
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Burkina Faso Chérif Sy
(2015)
, {{flagdeco, Burkina Faso Gilbert Diendéré
(2015)
, {{flagdeco, Burkina Faso Yacouba Isaac Zida
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, {{flagdeco, Burkina Faso Honoré Traoré
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(since 2022)
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(2016–19)
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, {{flagdeco, Guinea Mamady Doumbouya
(since 2021)
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, {{flagdeco, Vietnam Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh
(2018)
, {{flagdeco, Vietnam Trần Đại Quang
(2016–18)
, {{flagdeco, Vietnam Trương Tấn Sang
(2014–16)
, {{flagdeco, Vietnam Phạm Minh Chính
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Vietnam Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
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, {{flagdeco, Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Bhutan Lotay Tshering
(since 2018)
, {{flagdeco, Bhutan Tshering Tobgay
(2014–18)
, {{flagdeco, Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio
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, {{flagdeco, Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma
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, {{flagdeco, Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei
(since 2020)
, {{flagdeco, Guatemala Jimmy Morales
(2016–20)
, {{flagdeco, Guatemala Alejandro Maldonado
(2015–16)
, {{flagdeco, Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Paraguay Mario Abdo Benítez
(since 2018)
, {{flagdeco, Paraguay Horacio Cartes
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, {{flagdeco, Moldova Maia Sandu
(since 2020)
, {{flagdeco, Moldova Igor Dodon
(2016–20)
, {{flagdeco, Moldova Nicolae Timofti
(2014–16)
, {{flagdeco, Moldova Natalia Gavrilița
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Moldova Aureliu Ciocoi
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, {{flagdeco, Moldova Ion Chicu
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, {{flagdeco, Moldova Pavel Filip
(2016–19)
, {{flagdeco, Moldova Gheorghe Brega
(2015–16)
, {{flagdeco, Moldova Valeriu Streleț
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, {{flagdeco, Moldova Natalia Gherman
(2015)
, {{flagdeco, Moldova Chiril Gaburici
(2015)
, {{flagdeco, Moldova Iurie Leancă
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Bolivia Luis Arce
(since 2020)
, {{flagdeco, Bolivia Jeanine Áñez
(2019–20)
, {{flagdeco, Bolivia Evo Morales
(2014–19)
, {{flagdeco, Czech Republic Miloš Zeman
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Czech Republic Petr Fiala
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Czech Republic Andrej Babiš
(2017–21)
, {{flagdeco, Czech Republic Bohuslav Sobotka
(2014–17)
, {{flagdeco, Uruguay Luis Lacalle Pou
(since 2020)
, {{flagdeco, Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez
(2015–20)
, {{flagdeco, Uruguay José Mujica
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Argentina Alberto Fernández
(since 2019)
, {{flagdeco, Argentina Mauricio Macri
(2015–19)
, {{flagdeco, Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Colombia Gustavo Petro
(since 2022)
, {{flagdeco, Colombia Iván Duque
(2018–22)
, {{flagdeco, Colombia Juan Manuel Santos
(2014–18)
, {{flagdeco, Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador
(since 2018)
, {{flagdeco, Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto
(2014–18)
, {{flagdeco, Philippines Bongbong Marcos
(since 2022)
, {{flagdeco, Philippines Rodrigo Duterte
(2016–22)
, {{flagdeco, Philippines Benigno Aquino III
(2014–16)
, {{flagdeco, Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Sweden Magdalena Andersson
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Sweden Stefan Löfven
(2014–21)
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, {{flagdeco, Zimbabwe Phelekezela Mphoko
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, {{flagdeco, Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves
(2014–16)
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(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Estonia Jüri Ratas
(2016–21)
, {{flagdeco, Estonia Taavi Rõivas
(2014–16)
, {{flagdeco, Finland Sauli Niinistö
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Finland Sanna Marin
(since 2019)
, {{flagdeco, Finland Antti Rinne
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, {{flagdeco, Finland Juha Sipilä
(2015–19)
, {{flagdeco, Finland Alexander Stubb
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Georgia Salome Zourabichvili
(since 2018)
, {{flagdeco, Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili
(2014–18)
, {{flagdeco, Georgia Irakli Garibashvili
(since 2021, 2013–15)
, {{flagdeco, Georgia Giorgi Gakharia
(2019–21)
, {{flagdeco, Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze
(2018–19)
, {{flagdeco, Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili
(2015–18)
, {{flagdeco, Latvia Egils Levits
(since 2019)
, {{flagdeco, Latvia Raimonds Vējonis
(2015–19)
, {{flagdeco, Latvia Andris Bērziņš (Latvian President), Andris Bērziņš
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Latvia Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš
(since 2019)
, {{flagdeco, Latvia Māris Kučinskis
(2016–19)
, {{flagdeco, Latvia Laimdota Straujuma
(2014–16)
, {{flagdeco, Luxembourg Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Henri
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Luxembourg Xavier Bettel
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Netherlands Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Netherlands Mark Rutte
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
(since 2016)
, {{flagdeco, Portugal Aníbal Cavaco Silva
(2014–16)
, {{flagdeco, Portugal António Costa
(since 2015)
, {{flagdeco, Portugal Pedro Passos Coelho
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Poland Andrzej Duda
(since 2015)
, {{flagdeco, Poland Bronisław Komorowski
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Poland Mateusz Morawiecki
(since 2017)
, {{flagdeco, Poland Beata Szydło
(2015–17)
, {{flagdeco, Poland Ewa Kopacz
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Romania Klaus Iohannis
(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Romania Nicolae Ciucă
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Romania Florin Cîțu
(2020–21)
, {{flagdeco, Romania Ludovic Orban
(2019–20)
, {{flagdeco, Romania Viorica Dăncilă
(2018–19)
, {{flagdeco, Romania Mihai Tudose
(2017–18)
, {{flagdeco, Romania Sorin Grindeanu
(2017)
, {{flagdeco, Romania Dacian Cioloș
(2015–17)
, {{flagdeco, Romania Victor Ponta
(2014–15)
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(since 2014)
, {{flagdeco, Spain Pedro Sánchez
(since 2018)
, {{flagdeco, Spain Mariano Rajoy
(2014–18)
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(since 2015)
, {{flagdeco, Italy Giorgio Napolitano
(2014–15)
, {{flagdeco, Italy Giorgia Meloni
(since 2022)
, {{flagdeco, Italy Mario Draghi
(2021–22)
, {{flagdeco, Italy Giuseppe Conte
(2018–21)
, {{flagdeco, Italy Paolo Gentiloni
(2016–18)
, {{flagdeco, Italy Matteo Renzi
(2014–16)
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, {{flagdeco, Cameroon Paul Biya
(since 2013)
, {{flagdeco, Cameroon Joseph Ngute
(since 2019)
, {{flagdeco, Cameroon Philémon Yang
(2013–19)
, {{flagdeco, Chad Mahamat Déby Itno
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Chad Idriss Déby{{KIA
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, {{flagdeco, Chad Albert Pahimi Padacké
(since 2021, 2016–18)
, {{flagdeco, Chad Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet
(2013–16)
, {{flagdeco, Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso
(since 2013)
, {{flagdeco, Republic of the Congo Anatole Collinet Makosso
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Republic of the Congo Clément Mouamba
(2016–21)
, {{flagdeco, Democratic Republic of the Congo Félix Tshisekedi
(since 2019)
, {{flagdeco, Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Kabila
(2013–19)
, {{flagdeco, Democratic Republic of the Congo Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Democratic Republic of the Congo Sylvestre Ilunga
(2019–21)
, {{flagdeco, Democratic Republic of the Congo Bruno Tshibala
(2017–19)
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(2016–17)
, {{flagdeco, Democratic Republic of the Congo Matata Ponyo Mapon
(2013–16)
, {{flagdeco, Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba
(since 2013)
, {{flagdeco, Gabon Rose Christiane Raponda
(since 2020)
, {{flagdeco, Gabon Julien Nkoghe Bekale
(2019–20)
, {{flagdeco, Gabon Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet
(2016–19)
, {{flagdeco, Gabon Daniel Ona Ondo
(2014–16)
, {{flagdeco, Gabon Raymond Ndong Sima
(2013–14)
, {{flagdeco, Burundi Évariste Ndayishimiye
(since 2020)
, {{flagdeco, Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza
(2013–20)
, {{flagdeco, Burundi Gervais Ndirakobuca
(since 2022)
, {{flagdeco, Burundi Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni
(2020–22)
, {{flagdeco, São Tomé and Príncipe Carlos Vila Nova
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, São Tomé and Príncipe Evaristo Carvalho
(2016–21)
, {{flagdeco, São Tomé and Príncipe Manuel Pinto da Costa
(2013–16)
, {{flagdeco, São Tomé and Príncipe Jorge Bom Jesus
(since 2018)
, {{flagdeco, São Tomé and Príncipe Patrice Trovoada
(2014–18)
, {{flagdeco, São Tomé and Príncipe Gabriel Costa (politician), Gabriel Costa
(2013–14))
, {{flagdeco, Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
(since 2013)
, {{flagdeco, Equatorial Guinea Francisco Pascual Obama Asue
(since 2016)
, {{flagdeco, Equatorial Guinea Vicente Ehate Tomi
(2013–16)
, {{flagdeco, Morocco Mohammed VI of Morocco, Mohammed VI
(since 2013)
, {{flagdeco, Morocco Aziz Akhannouch
(since 2021)
, {{flagdeco, Morocco Saadeddine Othmani
(2017–21)
, {{flagdeco, Morocco Abdelilah Benkirane
(2013–17)
, commander2 = {{flagdeco, Central African Republic François Bozizé (since 2020)
{{flagicon image, Flag of Dar El Kuti Republic.svg Noureddine Adam (FPRC)
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic Ali Darassa (UPC)
{{flagicon image, Flag of Dar El Kuti Republic.svg Mahamat al-Khatim (MPC)
{{flagicon image, Flag of Lord's Resistance Army.svg Joseph Kony (LRA)

Former commanders:

{{flagdeco, Central African Republic Damane Zakaria (RPRC){{KIA
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic Michel Djotodia{{Surrendered (2013–2014)
{{flagicon image, Flag of Dar El Kuti Republic.svg Joseph Zoundeiko{{KIA{{cite news, date=29 July 2014, title=CAR crisis: Meeting the rebel army chief, url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28526362, newspaper=BBC News, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928164704/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28526362, archive-date=28 September 2018, url-status=live
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic Bi Sidi Souleymane, Sidiki Abass (3R){{KIA
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic Maxime Mokom (AB) {{Surrendered
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic Dieudonné Ndomaté (AB) {{Surrendered
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic Patrice Edouard Ngaissona (AB) {{Surrendered
{{flagdeco, Central African Republic Toumou Deya Gilbert (MLCJ) {{surrendered
''See full list: List of warlords in the Central African Republic''
, strength1 = {{flagdeco, Central African Republic 11,000 (2022)
{{flagdeco, United Nations MINUSCA: 15,760 (2022){{Cite web, url=https://minusca.unmissions.org/en/facts-and-figures, title=Facts and Figures, date=22 April 2015, website=MINUSCA
{{flagdeco, Russia Wagner Group: 1,200 (2022)

Formerly:
{{flagdeco, France 2,000
{{flagdeco, South Africa 200{{cite web, url=http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/zille-warns-of-car-scandal-1.1494128#.UnfTx_nIvyA, title=Zille warns of 'CAR scandal', access-date=4 November 2013, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210234138/http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/zille-warns-of-car-scandal-1.1494128#.UnfTx_nIvyA, archive-date=10 December 2013, url-status=live
ECCAS: 3,500+ peacekeepers{{cite web, title=More military help sought by UN to protect CAR civilians, url=http://www.theafricanews.net/index.php/sid/220190359/scat/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/ht/More-military-help-sought-by-UN-to-protect-CAR-civilians, access-date=22 February 2014, publisher=The Africa News.Net, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709140952/http://www.theafricanews.net/index.php/sid/220190359/scat/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/ht/More-military-help-sought-by-UN-to-protect-CAR-civilians, archive-date=9 July 2014, url-status=dead
, strength2 = 20,000+ (''self-claim'', 2022)
3,000 (''Séléka claim'', 2015)
1,000–2,000 (''other estimates'', 2014)"Seleka, Central Africa's motley rebel coalition"
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913065755/http://www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/seleka-central-africas-motley-rebel-coalition , date=13 September 2014 , Radio Netherlands Worldwide
, casualties1 = {{flagdeco, Central African Republic Unknown
{{flagdeco, United Nations 147 killed
{{flagdeco, South Africa 15 soldiers killed
{{flagdeco, France 3 soldiers killed
, casualties2 = 500+ rebel casualties (Bangui only, South African claim)
, notes =

Civilian casualties:
Unknown number killed or wounded
200,000 internally displaced; 20,000 refugees (1 Aug 2013)
700,000 internally displaced; +288,000 refugees (Feb 2014){{cite book, last1=Casey-Maslen, first1=Stuart, title=The War Report: Armed Conflict in 2013, date=2014, publisher=Oxford University Press, isbn=978-0-19-103764-1, page=411
Total: Thousands killed

13,594+ killed (Oct 2022)

, campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Central African Republic Civil War

{{History of the Central African Republic, expanded=all
The Central African Republic Civil War is an Ongoing armed conflict, ongoing civil war in the Central African Republic (CAR) involving the government, rebels from the Séléka coalition, and Anti-balaka militias.Uppsala Conflict Data Program Conflict Encyclopedia, Central African Republic, In depth: The Seleka Rebellion, viewed 16 May 2013, http://www.ucdp.uu.se/gpdatabase/gpcountry.php?id=31®ionSelect=2-Southern_Africa# {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212110026/http://www.ucdp.uu.se/gpdatabase/gpcountry.php?id=31®ionSelect=2-Southern_Africa , date=12 December 2013

In the preceding Central African Republic Bush War (2004–2007), the government of President François Bozizé fought with rebels until a peace agreement in 2007. The current conflict arose when a new coalition of varied rebel groups, known as ''{{lang, sg, Séléka'', accused the government of failing to abide by the peace agreements, captured many towns in 2012 and seized the capital in 2013. Bozizé fled the country, and the rebel leader Michel Djotodia declared himself President. Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration, Renewed fighting began between Séléka and militias opposed to them called Anti-balaka. In September 2013, President Djotodia disbanded the ''Séléka'' coalition, which had lost its unity after taking power, and resigned in 2014.{{cite news , url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-centralafrican-djotodia-idUSBREA090GT20140110 , title=Central African Republic president, PM resign at summit: statement , work=Reuters , access-date=10 January 2014 , date=10 January 2014 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151013022708/http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/10/us-centralafrican-djotodia-idUSBREA090GT20140110 , archive-date=13 October 2015 , url-status=live {{cite web, url=http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20140110-car-president-djotodia-and-pm-tiangaye-resign, title=CAR president Djotodia and PM Tiangaye resign, publisher=Radio France Internationale, date=10 January 2014, access-date=13 January 2014, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111221956/http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20140110-car-president-djotodia-and-pm-tiangaye-resign, archive-date=11 January 2014, url-status=live He was replaced by Catherine Samba-Panza, but the conflict continued.{{cite web, url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/new-car-pm-says-ending-atrocities-priority-2014126124325498176.html, title=New CAR PM says ending atrocities is priority, publisher=Al Jazeera, access-date=28 January 2014, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205224521/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/new-car-pm-says-ending-atrocities-priority-2014126124325498176.html, archive-date=5 February 2015, url-status=live In July 2014, ex-Séléka factions and Anti-balaka representatives signed a ceasefire agreement. By the end of 2014, the country was de facto partitioned with the Anti-Balaka controlling the south and west, from which most Muslims had evacuated, and ex-Séléka groups controlling the north and east.{{cite web, url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/28/one-day-we-will-start-a-big-war-central-african-republic-un-violence/, title=One day we will start a big war, work=Foreign Policy, access-date=13 February 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205203123/http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/28/one-day-we-will-start-a-big-war-central-african-republic-un-violence/, archive-date=5 February 2017, url-status=live Faustin-Archange Touadéra, who was elected President in 2016, ran and won the 2020 election, that triggered the main rebel factions to form an alliance opposed to the election called the Coalition of Patriots for Change, which was coordinated by former President Bozizé. Peacekeeping largely transitioned from the Economic Community of Central African States, ECCAS led MICOPAX to the African Union led MISCA to the United Nations led MINUSCA, while the France, French peacekeeping mission was known as Operation Sangaris.

Much of the tension is over religious identity between Muslims, Muslim Séléka fighters and Christians, Christian Anti-balaka, and ethnic differences among ex-Séléka factions, and historical antagonism between agriculturalists, who largely comprise Anti-balaka, and nomadic groups, who constitute most Séléka fighters.{{cite web, url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2016/07/displaced-forgotten-central-african-republic-160717113644108.html, title=Displaced and forgotten in Central African Republic, publisher=Al Jazeera, access-date=14 February 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215121142/http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2016/07/displaced-forgotten-central-african-republic-160717113644108.html, archive-date=15 February 2017, url-status=live Other contributing factors include the struggle for control of diamonds and other resources in the resource-rich country and for influence among regional powers such as Chad, Sudan and Rwanda and international powers such as France and Russia. More than 1.1 million people have fled their homes in a country of about 5 million people, the highest ever recorded in the country.{{cite news, url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-22/blast-at-concert-shows-central-african-republic-s-religious-rift, title=Concert Blast Shows Central African Republic Religious Rift, publisher=Bloomberg, access-date=26 November 2017, date=21 November 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201030757/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-22/blast-at-concert-shows-central-african-republic-s-religious-rift, archive-date=1 December 2017, url-status=live

Background

{{Main, Central African Republic Bush War

The peacekeeping force Multinational Force in the Central African Republic (FOMUC) was formed in October 2002 by the regional economic community Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC).{{cite web, title=HISTORIQUE DE L'OPÉRATION MICOPAX, url=http://www.operationspaix.net/77-historique-micopax.html, access-date=22 February 2017, publisher=RÉSEAU DE RECHERCHE SUR LES OPÉRATIONS DE PAIX, date=1 February 2012, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508222935/http://www.operationspaix.net/77-historique-micopax.html, archive-date=8 May 2017, url-status=live{{cite web , title= Central African Republic , url= http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-99_en.htm , access-date= 22 February 2017 , publisher= European Commission , date= 10 February 2014 , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170223130404/http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-99_en.htm , archive-date= 23 February 2017 , url-status= live , df= dmy-all

After François Bozizé seized power in 2003, the Central African Republic Bush War (2004–2007) began with the rebellion by the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR) in northeastern Central African Republic, CAR, led by Michel Djotodia. During this conflict, the UFDR rebel forces also fought with several other rebel groups including the Group of Patriotic Action for the Liberation of Central Africa (GAPLC), the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP), the People's Army for the Restoration of Democracy (CAR), People's Army for the Restoration of Democracy (APRD), the Movement of Central African Liberators for Justice (MLCJ), and the Democratic Front of the Central African People (FDPC). Tens of thousands of people were displaced by the unrest, which continued until 2007, with rebel forces seizing several cities during the conflict.{{citation needed, date=June 2021

On 13 April 2007, a peace agreement between the government and the UFDR was signed in Birao. The agreement provided for an amnesty for the UFDR, its recognition as a political party, and the integration of its fighters into the army. Further negotiations resulted in a Libreville Global Peace Accord agreement in 2008 for reconciliation, a unity government, local elections in 2009 and parliamentary and presidential elections in 2010. The new unity government that resulted was formed in January 2009. On 12 July 2008, with the waning of the Central African Republic Bush War, the larger overlapping regional economic community to CEMAC called the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), replaced FOMUC, whose mandate was largely restricted to security, with the Central African Peacebuilding Mission (MICOPAX), who had a broader peace building mandate.

Rebel groups alleged that François Bozizé, Bozizé had not followed the terms of the 2007 agreement and that there continued to be political abuses, especially in the northern part of the country, such as "torture and illegal executions".{{cite news, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/world/africa/rebels-agree-to-cease-fire-in-central-african-republic.html, title=Rebel Coalition in the Central African Republic Agrees to a Short Cease-Fire, last=Sayare, first=Scott, date=11 January 2013, work=The New York Times, access-date=12 January 2013, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329221513/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/world/africa/rebels-agree-to-cease-fire-in-central-african-republic.html?_r=0, archive-date=29 March 2014, url-status=live

Course of the conflict

{{See also, Timeline of the Central African Republic Civil War

Toppling Bozizé (2012–2013)

Formation of Séléka

In August 2012 a peace agreement was signed between the government and the CPJP. On 20 August 2012, an agreement was signed between a dissident faction of the CPJP, led by Colonel Hassan Al Habib calling itself CPJP#Fundamental CPJP, Fundamental CPJP, and the Patriotic Convention for Saving the Country (CPSK). Al Habib announced that, in protest of the peace agreement, the Fundamental CPJP was launching an offensive dubbed "Operation Charles Massi", in memory of the CPJP founder who was allegedly tortured and murdered by the government, and that his group intended to overthrow François Bozizé, Bozizé. In September, Fundamental CPJP, using the French name ''Alliance CPSK-CPJP,'' took responsibility for attacks on the towns of Sibut, Damara, Central African Republic, Damara and Dekoa, killing two members of the army. It claimed that it had killed two additional members of the Central African Armed Forces (FACA) in Damara, Central African Republic, Damara, capturing military and civilian vehicles, weapons including rockets, and communications equipment, and launched unsuccessful assault on a fourth town, Grimari, and promised more operations in the future. Mahamath Isseine Abdoulaye, president of the pro-government CPJP faction, countered that the CPJP was committed to the peace agreement and the attacks were the work of Chadian rebels, saying this group of "thieves" would never be able to march on Bangui. Al Habib was killed by Central African Armed Forces, FACA on 19 September in Daya, a town north of Dekoa.

In November 2012, in Obo, Central African Armed Forces, FACA soldiers were injured in an attack attributed to Chadian Popular Front for Recovery rebels. On 10 December 2012, the rebels seized the towns of N'Délé, Sam Ouandja and Ouadda, as well as weapons left by fleeing soldiers. On 15 December, rebel forces took Bamingui, and three days later they advanced to Bria, Central African Republic, Bria, moving closer to Bangui. The ''Alliance CPSK-CPJP'' for the first time used the name Séléka (meaning "union" in the Sango language) with a press release calling itself "Séléka CPSK-CPJP-UFDR", thus including the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR). The ''Séléka'' claim they are fighting because of a lack of progress after a peace deal ended the Central African Republic Bush War, Bush War. Following an appeal for help from Central African President François Bozizé, the President of Chad, Idriss Déby, pledged to send 2,000 troops to help quell the rebellion. The first Chadian troops arrived on 18 December 2012 to reinforce the Central African Republic, CAR contingent in Kaga-Bandoro, in preparation for a counter-attack on N'Délé. ''Séléka'' forces took Kabo on 19 December, a major hub for transport between Chad and CAR, located west and north of the areas previously taken by the rebels. On 18 December 2012, the Chadian group Popular Front for Recovery (FPR) announced their allegiance to the Séléka coalition. On 20 December 2012, a rebel group based in northern CAR, the Democratic Front of the Central African People (FDPC) joined the Séléka coalition. Four days later the rebel coalition took over Bambari, the country's third largest town, followed by Kaga-Bandoro on 25 December. Rebel forces reached Damara, Central African Republic, Damara, bypassing the town of Sibut where around 150 Chadian troops were stationed together with CAR troops that withdrew from Kaga-Bandoro.

On 26 December, hundreds of protesters surrounded the France, French embassy accusing the former colonial power of failing to help the army. Josué Binoua, the Central African Republic, CAR's minister for territorial administration, requested that France intervenes in case the rebels, now only {{convert, 75, km, mi, abbr=on away, manage to reach the capital Bangui.{{cite news , first=Paul-Marin , last=Ngoupana , url=http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE8BP09X20121226 , title=Central African Republic wants French help as rebels close in on capital , work=Reuters , date=26 December 2012 , access-date=26 December 2012 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128191802/http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE8BP09X20121226 , archive-date=28 January 2013 , url-status=live On 27 December, François Bozizé, Bozizé asked the international community for assistance. French President François Hollande rejected the appeal, saying that French troops would only be used to protect French nationals in CAR, and not to defend Bozizé's government. Reports indicated that the United States, U.S. military was preparing plans to evacuate "several hundred" American citizens, as well as other nationals. Gabonese General Jean-Félix Akaga, commander of the Economic Community of Central African States' (ECCAS) Multinational Force of Central Africa (FOMAC), said the capital was "fully secured" by the troops from its MICOPAX peacekeeping mission, adding that reinforcements should arrive soon. However, military sources in Gabon and Cameroon denied the report, claiming no decision had been taken regarding the crisis.

Government soldiers launched a counterattack against rebel forces in Bambari on 28 December, leading to heavy clashes, according to a government official. Several witnesses over {{convert, 60, km, mi, abbr=on away said they could hear detonations and heavy weapons fire for a number of hours. Later, both a rebel leader and a military source confirmed the military attack was repelled and the town remained under rebel control. At least one rebel fighter was killed and three were wounded in the clashes, and the military's casualties were unknown.

Meanwhile, the foreign ministers in the Economic Community of Central African States, ECCAS announced that more troops from the Multinational Force for Central Africa (FOMAC) would be sent to the country to support the 560 members of the MICOPAX mission already present. The announcement was done by Chad's Foreign Minister Moussa Faki after a meeting in the Gabonese capital Libreville. At the same time, ECCAS Deputy Secretary-General Guy-Pierre Garcia confirmed that the rebels and the Central African Republic, CAR government had agreed to unconditional talks, with the goal to get to negotiations by 10 January at the latest. In Bangui, the United States Air Force, U.S. Air Force evacuated around 40 people from the country, including the United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic, American ambassador. The International Committee of the Red Cross also evacuated eight of its foreign workers, though local volunteers and 14 other foreigners remained to help the growing number of displaced people.

Rebel forces took over the town of Sibut without firing a shot on 29 December, as at least 60 vehicles with Central African Republic, CAR and Chadian troops retreated to Damara, Central African Republic, Damara, the last city standing between Séléka and the capital. In Bangui, the government ordered a 7 pm to 5 am curfew and banned the use of motorcycle taxis, fearing they could be used by rebels to infiltrate the city. Residents reported many shop-owners had hired groups of armed men to guard their property in anticipation of possible looting, as thousands were leaving the city in overloaded cars and boats. The France, French military contingent rose to 400 with the deployment of 150 additional paratroopers sent from Gabon to Bangui M'Poko International Airport. French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault again stressed that the troops were only present to "protect French and European nationals" and not deal with the rebels.

Foreign troops and ceasefire agreement

On 30 December, President François Bozizé, Bozizé agreed to a possible national unity government with members of the Séléka coalition.Central African Republic president says ready to share power with rebels
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924172818/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/30/us-car-rebels-idUSBRE8BT03M20121230 , date=24 September 2015 . Reuters (30 December 2012). On 2 January 2013, the president took over as the new head of the defense ministry from his son and dismissed army chief Guillaume Lapo. Meanwhile, rebel spokesman Col. Djouma Narkoyo confirmed that ''Séléka'' had stopped their advance and will enter peace talks due to start in Libreville on 8 January, on the precondition that government forces stop arresting members of the Gula (Central African Republic), Gula tribe. The rebel coalition confirmed it would demand the immediate departure of President Bozizé, who had pledged to see out his term until its end in 2016. By 1 January reinforcements from FOMAC began to arrive in Damara, Central African Republic, Damara to support the 400 Chadian troops already stationed there as part of the MICOPAX mission. With rebels closing in on the capital Bangui, a total of 360 soldiers were sent to boost the defenses of Damara – Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 120 each from Gabon, Republic of the Congo and Cameroon, with a Gabonese general in command of the force.{{cite news , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/world/africa/central-africa-on-the-brink-rebels-halt-their-advance.html , title=Central Africa on the Brink, Rebels Halt Their Advance , newspaper=The New York Times , date=2 January 2013 , first=Scott , last=Sayare , access-date=26 February 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506002828/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/world/africa/central-africa-on-the-brink-rebels-halt-their-advance.html , archive-date=6 May 2017 , url-status=live Jean-Félix Akaga, the Gabonese general in charge of the MICOPAX force, sent by the Economic Community of Central African States, ECCAS, declared that Damara represented a "red line that the rebels cannot cross", and that doing so would be "a declaration of war" against the 10 members of the regional bloc. France had further boosted its presence in the country to 600 troops. On 6 January, South African President Jacob Zuma announced the deployment of 400 troops to Central African Republic, CAR to assist the forces already present there.{{cite news , url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/01/201316201622291808.html , title=South Africa to send 400 soldiers to CAR , publisher=Al Jazeera , date=6 January 2013 , access-date=6 January 2013 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109023716/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/01/201316201622291808.html , archive-date=9 January 2013 , url-status=live

On 11 January 2013, a ceasefire agreement was signed in Libreville, Gabon.{{citation needed, date=July 2021 On 13 January, François Bozizé, Bozizé signed a decree that removed Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadéra from power, as part of the agreement with the rebel coalition.{{cite news, url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/prime-minister-booted-from-job-in-central-african-republic-part-of-peace-deal-with-rebels/2013/01/13/bcebaf14-5dcf-11e2-8acb-ab5cb77e95c8_print.html, title=Prime minister booted from job in Central African Republic, part of peace deal with rebels, date=13 January 2013, newspaper=The Washington Post, access-date=15 January 2013{{dead link, date=June 2021, bot=medic{{cbignore, bot=medic The rebels dropped their demand for President François Bozizé to resign, but he had to appoint a new Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, prime minister from the opposition by 18 January 2013. On 17 January, Nicolas Tiangaye was appointed Prime Minister.Patrick Fort
"Tiangaye named Central African PM, says 'hard work' begins"
Agence France-Presse, 17 January 2013. {{webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227194652/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i29CmpNUhK93R12SF_Oyz_6o5uug?docId=CNG.376beea6edfc8b0d9c41b73f138d6700.4f1 , date=27 February 2014 The terms of the agreement also included that National Assembly of the Central African Republic be dissolved within a week with a year-long coalition government formed in its place and a new 2013 Central African Republic general election, legislative election be held within 12 months (with the possibility of postponement).{{cite news, title=Central African Republic ceasefire signed, publisher=BBC, date=11 January 2013, access-date=11 January 2013, url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20990671, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130111184136/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20990671, archive-date=11 January 2013, url-status=live In addition, the temporary coalition government had to implement judicial reforms, amalgamate the rebel troops with the Bozizé government's troops to establish a new national military, set up the new legislative elections, as well as introduce other social and economic reforms. Furthermore, Bozizé's government was required to free all political prisoners imprisoned during the conflict, and foreign troops must return to their countries of origin. Under the agreement, Séléka rebels were not required to give up the cities they have taken or were then occupying, allegedly as a way to ensure that the Bozizé government would not renege on the agreement. Bozizé would be allowed to remain president until new presidential elections in 2016.

On 23 January 2013, the ceasefire was broken, with the government blaming Séléka and Séléka blaming the government for allegedly failing to honor the terms of the power-sharing agreement.{{cite news, url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21880905, access-date=22 March 2013, date=21 March 2013, title=Central African Republic Seleka rebels 'seize' towns, publisher=BBC, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321170542/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21880905, archive-date=21 March 2013, url-status=live By 21 March, the rebels had advanced to Bouca, 300 km from the capital Bangui. On 22 March, the fighting reached the town of Damara, Central African Republic, Damara, 75 km from the capital.{{cite news, url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-centralafrica-rebels-idUSBRE92L0H920130322, title=Central African Republic rebels reach outskirts of capital, work=Reuters, date=22 March 2013, access-date=22 March 2013, author=Ngoupana, Paul Marin, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323062038/http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/22/us-centralafrica-rebels-idUSBRE92L0H920130322, archive-date=23 March 2013, url-status=live

Fall of Bangui

{{Main, Battle of Bangui
On 18 March 2013, the rebels, having taken over Gambo, Central African Republic, Gambo and Bangassou, threatened to take up arms again if their demands for the release of political prisoners, the integration of their forces into the national army and for South African soldiers to leave the country were not met within 72 hours. Three days later, they took control of the towns of Damara, Central African Republic, Damara and Bossangoa. By 23 March, they entered Bangui.{{cite news, title = CAR forces 'halt rebel advance', publisher = BBC, access-date = 23 March 2013, date = 22 March 2013, url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21905433, archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130323013522/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21905433, archive-date = 23 March 2013, url-status = live, df = dmy-all{{cite news , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/world/africa/rebels-push-into-capital-in-central-african-republic.html , title=Rebels Push into Capital in Central African Republic , newspaper=The New York Times , date=23 March 2013 , first=Adam , last=Nossiter , access-date=26 February 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104193823/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/world/africa/rebels-push-into-capital-in-central-african-republic.html , archive-date=4 November 2017 , url-status=live On 24 March, rebels reached the Renaissance Palace, Presidential Palace in the centre of the capital. The Presidential Palace and the rest of the capital soon fell to rebel forces and François Bozizé, Bozizé fled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo,{{cite news , title = CAR rebels 'seize' presidential palace , publisher = Al Jazeera , access-date = 24 March 2013 , date = 24 March 2013 , url = http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/03/201332481729584103.html , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130324125650/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/03/201332481729584103.html , archive-date = 24 March 2013 , url-status = live , df = dmy-all which was followed by widespread looting in the capital.{{cite news, title=Central African Republic capital falls to rebels, Bozizé flees, url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-centralafrica-rebels-idUSBRE92M0AU20130324, access-date=24 March 2013, work=Reuters, date=24 March 2013, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324032711/http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/24/us-centralafrica-rebels-idUSBRE92M0AU20130324, archive-date=24 March 2013, url-status=live By 2 April, only 20 of the original 200 South African National Defence Force troops stationed in Central African Republic, CAR remained in the country. A company of France, French troops secured Bangui M'Poko International Airport and France sent 350 soldiers to ensure the security of its citizens, bringing the total number of French troops in CAR to nearly 600.{{cite news, title=Central African Republic: Rebels 'take palace as Bozize flees', url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21915901, access-date=24 March 2013, work=BBC News, date=24 March 2013, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324231407/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21915901, archive-date=24 March 2013, url-status=live On 25 March 2013, Séléka leader Michel Djotodia, who served after the January agreement as First Deputy Prime Minister for National Defense, declared himself President, becoming the first Muslims, Muslim to ever hold the office. Djotodia said that there would be a three-year transitional period and that Nicolas Tiangaye would continue to serve as Prime Minister. Djotodia promptly suspended the constitution and dissolved the government, as well as the National Assembly.{{cite news , url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21934433 , title=CAR rebel head Michel Djotodia 'suspends constitution' , work=BBC News , date=25 March 2013 , access-date=26 March 2013 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326005533/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21934433 , archive-date=26 March 2013 , url-status=live He then reappointed Tiangaye as Prime Minister on 27 March 2013."Nicolas Tiangaye: C.Africa PM and 'man of integrity'"
{{webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214025359/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130327/nicolas-tiangaye-cafrica-pm-and-man-integrity , date=14 December 2013 , Agence France-Presse, 27 March 2013.

Séléka rule and fall of Djotodia (2013–2014)

{{Main, Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration
In the following two days top military and police officers met with Michel Djotodia, Djotodia and recognized him as President on 28 March 2013, in what was viewed as "a form of surrender", and the overall security situation was beginning to improve. A new government headed by Nicolas Tiangaye, Tiangaye, with 34 members, appointed on 31 March 2013, included nine members of Séléka, along with eight representatives of the parties that had opposed François Bozizé, Bozizé, while only one member of the government was associated with Bozizé, and 16 positions were given to representatives of civil society. The former opposition parties declared on 1 April that they would boycott the government to protest its domination by Séléka, arguing that the 16 positions given to representatives of civil society were in fact "handed over to Séléka allies disguised as civil society activists".

On 3 April 2013, African leaders meeting in Chad declared that they did not recognize Michel Djotodia, Djotodia as President; instead, they proposed the formation of an inclusive transitional council and the holding of new elections in 18 months, rather than three years as envisioned by Djotodia. Speaking on 4 April, Information Minister Christophe Gazam Betty said that Djotodia had accepted the proposals of the African leaders; however, he suggested that Djotodia could remain in office if he were elected to head the transitional council. Djotodia accordingly signed a decree on 6 April for the formation of a transitional council that would act as a transitional parliament. The council was tasked with electing an interim president to serve during an 18-month transitional period leading to new elections.

The transitional council, composed of 105 members, met for the first time on 13 April 2013 and immediately elected Michel Djotodia, Djotodia as interim President; there were no other candidates. A few days later, regional leaders publicly accepted Djotodia's transitional leadership, but, in a symbolic show of disapproval, stated that he would "not be called President of the Republic, but Head of State of the Transition". According to the plans for the transition, Djotodia would not stand as a candidate for President in the election that would conclude the transition.

On 13 September 2013, Michel Djotodia, Djotodia formally disbanded Séléka, which he had lost effective control of once the coalition had taken power. This had little actual effect in stopping abuses by the militia soldiers who were now referred to as Ex-Séléka.Dukhan, N. (2016). The Central African Republic crisis. Birmingham, UK: GSDRC, University of Birmingham

{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329104138/http://www.gsdrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CAR_Jan2016.pdf, date=29 March 2017 Self-defense militias called Antibalaka, Anti-balaka previously formed to fight crime on a local level, had organized into militias against abuses by Séléka soldiers. On 5 December 2013, called "A Day That Will Define Central African Republic", the Anti-balaka militias coordinated an attack on Bangui against its Muslims, Muslim population, killing more than 1,000 civilians, in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Djotodia.{{cite news, title=Bloodshed in Bangui: A Day That Will Define Central African Republic, url=http://time.com/3805535/bloodshed-in-bangui-a-day-that-will-define-central-african-republic/, access-date=5 March 2017, magazine=Time, date=6 December 2013, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306071652/http://time.com/3805535/bloodshed-in-bangui-a-day-that-will-define-central-african-republic/, archive-date=6 March 2017, url-status=live

On 14 May, Central African Republic, CAR's PM Nicolas Tiangaye requested a United Nations, UN peacekeeping force from the UN Security Council, and on 31 May former President François Bozizé, Bozizé was indicted for crimes against humanity and incitement of genocide. On the same day as the 5 December attacks, the UN Security Council authorized the transfer of MICOPAX to the African Union led peacekeeping mission, the MISCA, International Support Mission in the Central African Republic (MISCA or AFISM-CAR), with troop numbers increasing from 2,000 to 6,000,{{cite web , title= About , date= 22 April 2015 , url= https://minusca.unmissions.org/en/about , access-date= 22 February 2017 , publisher= MINUSCA , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170223130609/https://minusca.unmissions.org/en/about , archive-date= 23 February 2017 , url-status= live , df= dmy-all as well as for the France, French peacekeeping mission called Operation Sangaris.

Interim President Michel Djotodia and Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye resigned on 10 January 2014 yet the conflict still continued. The National Transitional Council elected the new interim president of the Central African Republic after Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet became the Acting Chief of State. Nguendet, being the president of the provisional parliament and viewed as being close to Djotodia, did not run for the election under diplomatic pressure. On 20 January 2014, Catherine Samba-Panza, the mayor of Bangui, was elected as the interim president in the second round voting.{{cite web, url=http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20140120-presidence-transition-rca-catherine-samba-panza-elue-desire-kolingba, title=Centrafrique: Catherine Samba-Panza élue présidente de la transition, publisher=Radio France Internationale, date=20 January 2014, access-date=20 January 2014, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140121011219/http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20140120-presidence-transition-rca-catherine-samba-panza-elue-desire-kolingba, archive-date=21 January 2014, url-status=live Samba-Panza was viewed as having been neutral and away from clan clashes. Her arrival to the presidency was generally accepted by both the Ex-Séléka and the Anti-balaka sides. Following the election, Samba-Panza made a speech in the parliament appealing to the Ex-Séléka and the Anti-balaka for putting down their weapons.

Ex-Séléka and Anti-balaka fighting (2014–2020)

On 27 January, Séléka leaders left Bangui under the escort of Chadian peacekeepers. The aftermath of Michel Djotodia, Djotodia's presidency was said to be without law, a functioning police and courts{{cite web, url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47111&Cr=central+african+republic&Cr1=#.Uv_Gu0KzBJ0, title=United Nations News Centre, date=10 February 2014, work=UN News Service Section, access-date=28 June 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010035502/http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47111&Cr=central+african+republic&Cr1=#.Uv_Gu0KzBJ0, archive-date=10 October 2016, url-status=live leading to a wave of violence against Muslims.

The European Union decided to set up its first military operations in six years when foreign ministers approved the sending of up to 1,000 soldiers to the country by the end of February, to be based around Bangui. Estonia promised to send soldiers, while Lithuania, Slovenia, Finland, Belgium, Poland and Sweden were considering sending troops; Germany, Italy and Great Britain announced that they would not send soldiers.{{cite web , url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/car-2014120133557833528.html , title=CAR appoints Bangui mayor as interim leader , publisher=Al Jazeera , access-date=30 January 2014 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140123210724/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/car-2014120133557833528.html , archive-date=23 January 2014 , url-status=live The United Nations Security Council, UN Security Council unanimously voted to approve sending European Union troops and to give them a mandate to use force, as well as threatening sanctions against those responsible for the violence. The E.U. had pledged 500 troops to aid African and France, French troops already in the country. Specifically the resolution allowed for the use of "''all necessary measures''" to protect civilians. The first batch of 55 EUFOR troops arrived in Bangui, according to the French army, and carried out its first patrol on 9 April with the intention of "''maintaining security and training local officers''". On 15 February, France announced that it would send an additional 400 troops to the country. French President François Hollande's office called for "''increased solidarity''" with the Central African Republic, CAR and for the United Nations Security Council to accelerate the deployment of peacekeeping troops to the CAR. Ban Ki-moon then also called for the rapid deployment of 3,000 additional international peacekeepers. Because of increasing violence, on 10 April 2014, the UN Security Council transferred MISCA to a UN peacekeeping operation called the MINUSCA, Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) with 10,000 troops, to be deployed in September that year. MINUSCA drew figurative "red lines" on the roads to keep the peace among rival militias.{{cite web, url=https://www.irinnews.org/analysis/2017/02/24/central-african-republic-what's-gone-wrong, title=Central African Republic: What's gone wrong?, agency=IRIN, date=24 February 2017, access-date=26 February 2017 France called for a vote at the United Nations Security Council, UNSC in April 2014 and expected a unanimous resolution authorising 10,000 troops and 1,800 police to replace the over 5,000 African Union soldiers on 15 September; the motion was then approved. After an incident where civilians were killed that involved Chadian soldiers, Chad announced the withdrawal of its forces from MISCA in April 2014.{{cite web, url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/04/un-chad-soldiers-killed-30-car-201444151841424834.html, title=UN: Chad soldiers killed 30 in CAR, access-date=13 June 2014, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413075719/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/04/un-chad-soldiers-killed-30-car-201444151841424834.html, archive-date=13 April 2014, url-status=live

As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned of a ''de facto'' partition of the country into Muslims, Muslim and Christians, Christian areas as a result of the sectarian fighting, he also called the conflict an "urgent test" for the United Nations, UN and the region's states. Amnesty International blamed the Anti-balaka militia of causing a "Muslim exodus of historic proportions." Catherine Samba-Panza, Samba-Panza suggested poverty and a failure of governance was the cause of the conflict. Some Muslims of the country were also weary of the French presence in MISCA, with the France, French accused of not doing enough to stop attacks by Christian militias. One of the cited reasons for the difficulty in stopping attacks by Anti-balaka militias was the mob nature of these attacks.

After three days of talks, a ceasefire was signed on 24 July 2014 in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.{{cite news , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/world/africa/central-african-republic-factions-approve-a-cease-fire-agreement.html , title=Central African Republic: Factions Approve a Cease-Fire Agreement , agency=Associated Press , work=The New York Times , date=23 July 2014 , access-date=24 July 2014 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725024900/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/world/africa/central-african-republic-factions-approve-a-cease-fire-agreement.html , archive-date=25 July 2014 , url-status=live , df=dmy-all The Séléka representative was General Mohamed Moussa Dhaffane, and the Anti-balaka representative was Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, Patrick Edouard Ngaïssona. The talks were mediated by List of heads of state of the Republic of the Congo, Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso and South Sudanese diplomat Albino Aboug.{{cite news , url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-centralafrica-talks-idUKKBN0FS2GJ20140723?feedType=RSS , title=Central African Republic groups sign ceasefire after talks , work=Reuters , date=24 July 2014 , access-date=24 July 2014 , author=Elion, Christian , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728034145/http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/23/uk-centralafrica-talks-idUKKBN0FS2GJ20140723?feedType=RSS , archive-date=28 July 2014 , url-status=live , df=dmy-all The Séléka delegation had pushed for a formalization of the partition of the Central African Republic with Muslims in the north and Christians in the south but dropped that demand in talks.{{cite web , url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28457599 , title=Central African Republic factions announce ceasefire , publisher=BBC , date=24 July 2014 , access-date=24 July 2014 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724023706/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28457599 , archive-date=24 July 2014 , url-status=live , df=dmy-all Many factions on the ground claimed the talks were not representative and fighting continued with Séléka's military leader Joseph Zoundeiko rejected the ceasefire agreement the next day saying it lacked input from his military wing and brought back the demand for partition. Ngaïssona told a general assembly of Anti-balaka fighters and supporters to lay down their arms and that Anti-balaka would be turned into a political party called Central African Party for Unity and Development (PCUD) but he had little control over the loose network of fighters. In May 2015, a national reconciliation conference organized by the transitional government of the Central Africa Republic took place. This was called the Bangui National Forum. The forum resulted in the adoption of a Republican Pact for Peace, National Reconciliation and Reconstruction and the signature of a Disarmament, Demobilisation, Rehabilitation and Repatriation (DDRR) agreement among 9 of 10 armed groups.

Months after the official dissolution of Séléka it was not known who was in charge of Ex-Séléka factions during talks with Anti-balaka until on 12 July 2014, Michel Djotodia was reinstated as the head of an ad hoc coalition of Ex-Séléka{{cite news, last=Kleinfeld, first=Philip, title=Rebel schism drives alarming upsurge of violence in Central African Republic, url=http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2017/05/18/rebel-schism-drives-alarming-upsurge-violence-central-african-republic, agency=IRIN, date=18 May 2017, access-date= 18 May 2017 which renamed itself "Séléka#Ex-Séléka militias, The Popular Front for the Rebirth (or Renaissance) of Central African Republic" (FPRC). Later in 2014, Noureddine Adam led the FPRC and began demanding independence for the predominantly Muslims, Muslim north, a move rejected by another general, Ali Darassa, who formed another Ex-Séléka faction called the "Séléka#Ex-Séléka militias, Union for Peace in the Central African Republic" (UPC), which was dominant in and around Bambari, while the FPRC's capital is in Bria, Central African Republic, Bria.{{cite web, url=https://international.la-croix.com/news/the-battle-of-ouaka-in-central-african-republic/4756, title=The battle of Ouaka in Central African Republic, publisher=LaCroix International, date=27 February 2017, access-date=27 February 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227131744/https://international.la-croix.com/news/the-battle-of-ouaka-in-central-african-republic/4756, archive-date=27 February 2017, url-status=live Darassa rebuffed multiple attempts to reunify Séléka and threatened FPRC's hegemony. Noureddine Adam declared the autonomous Republic of Logone or Dar El Kuti{{cite web, url=http://www.enoughproject.org/reports/dangerous-divisions-central-african-republic-faces-threat-secession, title=Dangerous Divisions: The Central African Republic faces the threat of secession, publisher=Enough Project, date=15 February 2017, access-date=1 March 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302194833/http://www.enoughproject.org/reports/dangerous-divisions-central-african-republic-faces-threat-secession, archive-date=2 March 2017, url-status=live on 14 December 2015 and intended Bambari as the capital, with the transitional government denouncing the declaration and MINUSCA stating it will use force against any separatist attempt. Another group is the "Séléka#Ex-Séléka militias, Central African Patriotic Movement" (MPC), founded by Mahamat Al-Khatim, Mahamat Al Khatim.

Since 2014, there has been little government control outside of the capital. Armed entrepreneurs have carved out personal fiefdoms in which they set up checkpoints, collect illegal taxes, and take in millions of dollars from the illicit coffee, mineral, and timber trades. At least 14 armed groups vied for territory, notably four factions formed by Ex-Séléka leaders who controlled about 60% of the country's territory. In January 2015, talks in Nairobi between Joachim Kokate representing the Anti-balaka and Michel Djotodia, Djotodia and Noureddine Adam, Adam of FPRC led to another ceasefire agreement where they called for amnesty for all perpetrators of abuses and the removal of the current transitional authorities. The transitional government and the international community dismissed the deal as it excluded them from the negotiations and termed the parties "Nairobists". By October 2015, Catherine Samba-Panza, Samba-Panza accused the Nairobists of plotting a coup and dozens of FPRC combatants even walked from the north-east of the country to Sibut, a few kilometres from the capital, threatening the transitional authorities, but were stopped by international forces. With the de facto partition of the country between Ex-Séléka militias in the north and east and Anti-balaka militias in the south and west, hostilities between both sides decreased but sporadic fighting continued. In February 2016, after a peaceful 2015–16 Central African general election, election, the former prime minister Faustin-Archange Touadéra was elected president. In October 2016, France announced that it was ending its peacekeeping mission in the country, Operation Sangaris, and largely withdrew its troops, saying that the operation was a success. By March 2014, the United Nations Security Council, UNSC had authorised a probe into possible genocide, which in turn followed International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda initiating a preliminary investigation into the "''extreme brutality''" and whether it falls into the court's remit. The UNSC mandate probe would be led by Cameroonian lawyer Bernard Acho Muna, who was the deputy chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, former Mexico, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jorge Castañeda Gutman, Jorge Castañeda and Mauritanian lawyer Fatimata M'Baye. The International Criminal Court, ICC began prosecutions and Alfred Yekatom of the Anti-Balaka who was involved in the 'Battle of Bangui' and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, Patrice Edouard Ngaïssona of the Anti-Balaka were arrested in 2018, although no one from the Ex-Séléka was arrested.

In eastern Central African Republic, CAR, tensions erupted in competition between Ex-Séléka militias arising over control of a goldmine in November 2016, where MPC and the FPRC coalition, which incorporated elements of their former enemy, the Anti-balaka, attacked UPC. The violence is often ethnic in nature with the FPRC associated with the Kara people, Gula and Aiki language, Runga people and the UPC associated with the Fulani. Most of the fighting was in the centrally located Ouaka prefecture, which has the country's second largest city Bambari, because of its strategic location between the Muslims, Muslim and Christians, Christian regions of the country and its wealth. The fight for Bambari in early 2017 displaced 20,000.{{cite news, url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-centralafrica-violence-idUSKBN15R0WC, title=U.N. air strikes in Central African Republic kill several: militia, date=12 February 2017, work=Reuters, access-date=14 February 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214000843/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-centralafrica-violence-idUSKBN15R0WC, archive-date=14 February 2017, url-status=live MINUSCA made a robust deployment to prevent FPRC taking the city and in February 2017, Joseph Zoundeiko, the chief of staff of FPRC who previously led the military wing of Séléka, was killed by MINUSCA after crossing one of the red lines.{{cite web, url=http://www.newsweek.com/central-african-republic-war-fprc-car-556068, title=U.N. 'KILLS REBEL COMMANDER' IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AIRSTRIKES, website=Newsweek, date=13 February 2017, access-date=14 February 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213235108/http://www.newsweek.com/central-african-republic-war-fprc-car-556068, archive-date=13 February 2017, url-status=live At the same time, MINUSCA negotiated the removal of Ali Darassa from the city. This led to UPC to find new territory, spreading the fighting from urban to rural areas previously spared. Additionally, the thinly spread MINUSCA relied on Ugandan as well as United States, American special forces to keep the peace in the southeast, as they were part of a campaign to eliminate the Lord's Resistance Army, but the mission ended in April 2017. By the latter half of 2017, the fighting largely shifted to the southeast where the UPC reorganized and were pursued by the FPRC and Anti-balaka with the level of violence only matched by the early stage of the war.{{cite news, url=http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2017/10/30/people-are-dying-every-day-car-refugees-fleeing-war-suffer-congo, title=CAR refugees fleeing war suffer in Congo, agency=IRIN, date=30 October 2017, access-date=26 November 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041544/http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2017/10/30/people-are-dying-every-day-car-refugees-fleeing-war-suffer-congo, archive-date=1 December 2017, url-status=live About 15,000 people fled from their homes in an attack in May and six United Nations, U.N. peacekeepers were killed – the deadliest month for the mission yet. In June 2017, another ceasefire was signed in Rome by the government and 14 armed groups including FPRC, but the next day fighting between an FPRC faction and Anti-balaka militias killed more than 100 people. In October 2017, another ceasefire was signed between the UPC, the FPRC, and Anti-balaka groups, and FPRC announced Ali Darassa as coalition vice-president, but fighting continued afterward. By July 2018 the FPRC was headed by Abdoulaye Hissène and based in the northeastern town of N'Délé. In 2019, the FPRC split into two factions, a Runga people, Runga group on one side, including Abdoulaye Hissene, and rival fighters from the Gula and Kara people, Kara on the other side.

In western Central African Republic, CAR, another rebel group, with no known links to Séléka or Anti-balaka, called "Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation" (3R) formed in 2015 reportedly by Sidiki Abass,{{cite news, url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/20/central-african-republic-mayhem-new-group, title=Central African Republic: Mayhem by New Group, publisher=Human Rights Watch, date=20 December 2016, access-date=28 February 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301094442/https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/20/central-african-republic-mayhem-new-group, archive-date=1 March 2017, url-status=live claiming to be protecting Muslim Fulani people from an Anti-balaka militia led by Abbas Rafal.{{cite news, url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/newly-formed-3r-rebel-group-inflicts-horrors-car-161223035217671.html, title=Newly formed 3R rebel group inflicts horrors in CAR: UN, publisher=Al Jazeera, date=23 December 2016, access-date=28 February 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227235903/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/newly-formed-3r-rebel-group-inflicts-horrors-car-161223035217671.html, archive-date=27 February 2017, url-status=live They are accused of displacing 17,000 people in November 2016 and at least 30,000 people in the Ouham-Pendé prefecture in December 2016. In northwestern CAR around Paoua, fighting since December 2017 between "Revolution and Justice" (RJ) and "Movement for the Liberation of the Central African Republic People" (MNLC) displaced around 60,000 people. MNLC, founded in October 2017, was led by Ahamat Bahar, a former member and co-founder of FPRC and MRC, and is allegedly backed by Fulani fighters from Chad. The Christian militant group RJ was formed in 2013, mostly by members of the presidential guard of former president Ange-Félix Patassé, and were composed mainly of ethnic Kaba languages, Sara-Kaba.{{cite news, url=http://www.irinnews.org/report/100623/armed-groups-car, title=Armed groups in CAR, agency=IRIN, date=17 September 2014, access-date=18 January 2018, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119175434/http://www.irinnews.org/report/100623/armed-groups-car, archive-date=19 January 2018, url-status=live While both groups had previously divided the territory in the Northwest, tensions erupted after the killing of RJ leader, Clément Bélanga, in November 2017.

Beginning around 2017, Russia began to increasingly support the government of Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Touadéra, whose personal guard became largely Russian as well. Three Russian journalists were killed in 2018 while investigating Russian mercenary groups in Central African Republic, CAR. In August 2018, Russia and Sudan helped broker another tentative agreement among armed groups. After talks in Khartoum, an African Union led initiative led to an accord between the government and 14 rebel groups in February 2019 called the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation, the eighth such agreement since the war started in 2012. As part of the accord, Ali Darassa of UPC, Mahamat Al-Khatim of MPC and Bi Sidi Souleymane, Sidiki Abass of 3R were given positions as special military advisers to the prime minister's office overseeing special mixed units made of government and rebel soldiers in regions of the country that they already controlled.{{cite web, url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/24/central-african-republic-dont-reward-warlords#, title=Central African Republic:Don't reward warlords, publisher=Human Rights Watch, date=24 April 2019, access-date=25 May 2019 This did not stop the violence, with 3R killing more than 50 people in several villages in May 2019,{{cite news, url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/50-killed-armed-group-attack-villages-car-190524193707718.html, title=At least 50 killed in armed group attack on villages in CAR: UN, publisher=Al Jazeera, date=24 May 2019, access-date=25 May 2019 leading to MINUSCA to launch a military operation against them. In August 2019, Sidiki Abbas of 3R and Mahamat Al-Khatim of MPC resigned from their government posts. Democratic Front of the Central African People (FDPC) leader Abdoulaye Miskine refused to take his government post and joined a new rebel group formed in June 2019 called "Partie du Rassemblement de la Nation Centrafricaine" (PRNC) to oppose the peace deal, claiming that the deal is a way of rebel leaders to gain money and posts from the government. In September 2019, fighting between two rebel groups that signed the February 2019 deal, FPRC and the mostly Kara people, Kara "Movement of Central African Liberators for Justice" (MLCJ), which was founded by Abakar Sabon and was not part of the Séléka alliance that overthrew François Bozizé, Bozizé, killed at least 24 people and displaced about 24,000.{{cite news, url=https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2019/11/04/Central-African-Republic-rebels-fight-peace-deal, title=Briefing: In Central African Republic, rebels fight on as peace deal falters, publisher=The New Humanitarian, date=4 November 2019, access-date=17 December 2019

Rebel alliance and advance

2020 Central African general election, Presidential and legislative elections were scheduled for 27 December 2020. Former President François Bozizé had announced his return to the country in December 2019 and his intent to run in the presidential election. Bozizé, of the Gbaya people, Gbaya, the country's largest ethnic group, retained much support among the population and army members.{{cite news, url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/23/un-says-seized-car-town-under-peacekeepers-control, title=Bambari: UN says seized CAR town now under peacekeepers' control, publisher=Al Jazeera, date=23 December 2020, access-date=27 December 2020

On 19 December 2020 six rebel groups who together control two-thirds of the country's territory,{{cite news, url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/13/rebels-launch-attacks-on-central-african-republics-capital, title=Rebels launch attacks on Central African Republic's capital, date=13 January 2021, access-date=13 January 2021 including 3R led by General Sembé Bobo, FPRC, and UPC,{{cite news, url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/22/russia-confirms-sending-300-military-instructors-to-car, title=CAR rebels seize Bambari city, Russia confirms sending military, publisher=Al Jazeera, date=22 December 2020, access-date=27 December 2020 announced they had formed an alliance called the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), and accused President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Touadéra of trying to rig the election and stated their intent to advance to the capital. They seized several towns close to Bangui. The government accused François Bozizé, Bozizé of fomenting a coup with the rebels after his candidacy for presidential elections was rejected by the country's highest court, but Bozizé denied this.{{cite news, url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/25/central-african-rebel-groups-call-off-ceasefire-before-election, title=CAR rebels call off truce, resume march on Bangui as polls loom, publisher=Al Jazeera, date=25 December 2020, access-date=27 December 2020

On 20 December 2020 Rwanda confirmed it had sent troops and Russia said it had sent 300 military instructors. On 22 December, the Coalition of Patriots for Change, CPC, in an offensive led by UPC, had taken the country's fourth largest city, Bambari, according to its mayor, but the United Nations, UN stated that its peacekeepers had retaken the city the next day. On 28 December, it was announced by the electoral commission that 800 (14%) of polling stations failed to operate during the presidential and legislative elections due to violent attacks from armed rebels.

On January 3, 2021, MINUSCA reported that the rebel coalition partially captured Bangassou, adding that the fighters were allied to former President François Bozizé. It is argued that the arrival of the Rwandans and Russians thwarted the rebels from reaching Bangui and so the rebels adopted a long term strategy of suffocating Bangui by controlling the resources around it,{{Cite news, author=Al Jazeera Staff, date=2021-01-04, title=CAR rebels attack and enter town before poll results announced, language=en, agency=Reuters, url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/4/car-rebels-seize-central-town-of-bangassou, access-date=2021-01-05 however, on January 13, the Coalition of Patriots for Change, CPC attacked the capital but were eventually repelled.

On January 4, the electoral commission declared Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Touadéra the winner of the presidential election. A state of emergency was declared in January 25, and President Touadéra has been accused of using that opportunity to crack down on opponents and consolidate power. Pro-Touadéra militias known as the "Sharks" and "7th Territorial Infantry Battalion" are alleged to have been involved in disappearances of members of François Bozizé, Bozizé's party and former president's Catherine Samba-Panza, as well as challengers of Touadéra in the recent polls, Anicet-Georges Dologuélé and Martin Ziguélé, report being prevented from exiting the country.

Russian mercenaries and government offensives (January 2021-present)

Since January 2021, due to the actions of Russia's Neo-Nazism, neo-Nazi-linked{{efn, {{cite journal , author-last=Faulkner , author-first=Christopher , date=June 2022 , url=https://ctc.westpoint.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CTC-SENTINEL-062022.pdf , title=Undermining Democracy and Exploiting Clients: The Wagner Group's Nefarious Activities in Africa , url-status=live , editor1-last=Cruickshank , editor1-first=Paul , editor2-last=Hummel , editor2-first=Kristina , journal=CTC Sentinel , volume=15 , issue=6 , pages=28–37 , publisher=Combating Terrorism Center , location=West Point, New York , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719173200/https://ctc.westpoint.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CTC-SENTINEL-062022.pdf , archive-date=19 July 2022 , access-date=16 August 2022{{Cite news , title=Moscow Turns U.S. Volunteers Into New Bogeyman in Ukraine , url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/15/russia-mercenaries-volunteers-ukraine/ , work=Foreign Policy , last=Ling , first=Justin , date=15 March 2022 , quote=The propaganda campaign has extolled the Wagner Group as hunting neo-Nazis and extremists. Yet the group’s own ties to the Russian far-right are well documented: The likely founder of the group has the logo of the Nazi Schutzstaffel tattooed on his neck. Various elements of the current Wagner Group have ties to neo-Nazis and far-right extremism. , access-date=26 June 2022{{cite web, url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/putin-nazi-pretext-russia-war-ukraine-belied-white-supremacy-ties-rcna23043, title=One of the worst ways Putin is gaslighting the world on Ukraine, work=NBC News, publisher=NBC, last1=Soufan, first1=Ali, last2=Sales, first2=Nathan, quote="The Wagner Group is named after the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner, whose music Adolf Hitler adored. The group’s leader, Dmitry Utkin, reportedly wears Nazi tattoos, including a swastika, a Nazi eagle and SS lightning bolts. Wagner mercenaries are reported to have left behind neo-Nazi propaganda in the war zones where they’ve fought, including graffiti with hate symbols." Wagner Group and neo-Nazi Russian Imperial Movement, the rebels have been on the retreat for the first time in years. On 25 January 2021, Central African Republic, CAR forces, backed by Russian Private military company, PMCs and Rwandan troops, attacked Boyali, killing 44 rebels who were plotting an assault on the capital.{{Cite news, url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/central-african-republic-troops-beat-back-rebels-with-russian-help-1.4468637, title=Central African Republic troops beat back rebels with Russian help, newspaper=The Irish Times Subsequently, CAR forces, supported by the Russian contractors and Rwandan troops, captured a number of strategic towns throughout February 2021, including Bossembele, Bouar, Beloko and Bossangoa. As the rebels were being pushed back, Valery Zakharov urged them to hand over their leaders to the CAR's security forces. During the fighting, the rebel Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) claimed its fighters killed several Wagner Group PMCs and captured one when they destroyed their truck near Bambari on 10 February.{{Cite web, url=https://news.rambler.ru/army/45827681-boytsov-chvk-vagnera-ubili-v-tsar/, title=Бойцов ЧВК Вагнера убили в ЦАР, website=Рамблер/новости


Government advances, with the support of Russian and Rwandan forces, continued during March, April and May 2021. This included the capture of the strategic towns of Bria, Central African Republic, Bria and Kaga-Bandoro and the Bakouma sub-prefecture. Some towns were also seized solely by the Russian Private military company, PMCs,RCA : les mercenaires russes et syriens ont repris la ville de Yalinga sans affrontement
/ref> including Nzacko. In at least one instance, the contractors reportedly included Syrians.

On March 25, 3R rebel leader Bi Sidi Souleymane, Sidiki Abass, whose group is accused of war crimes, had succumbed to his injuries in the northern part of the country. In April 2021, the UPC, then the biggest of the armed rebel groups, withdrew from the Coalition of Patriots for Change, CPC and asked to talk with the government which has declined so far. The rebels were seen to be moving away from cities and towards peripheral areas and turning to guerilla tactics instead of open fighting.

By mid-May, the Russians have captured a village about 40 km from Bambari during fighting that left 20 people dead. In addition, at the end of the month, Russians, Russian and Syrians, Syrian Private military company, PMCs of the Wagner Group attacked a rebel checkpoint at the entrance of a village 28 km from Bria, Central African Republic, Bria, killing three Union for Peace in the Central African Republic, CPC fighters. Towards the end of July, the Central African Republic, CAR military was leaving the frontline against the CPC to the Private military company, PMCs. The plan was for government troops to occupy the captured positions after they had been secured by the contractors.

The increase in influence by Russia at the expense of France in its former colony led to a disinformation campaign on Facebook between the two powers and France suspending aid and military cooperation with the Central African Republic, CAR government in May 2021.

On 5 October 2021, Matchika massacre, 34 civilians were killed by alleged UPC rebels in the village of Matchika near Bambari. Between 6 and 16 December 2021 Anti-balaka fighters from pro-government faction Boyo killings, killed number of Muslim civilians in Boyo, Central African Republic, Boyo commune for their alleged links with UPC rebels.

On 16 and 17 January 2022, Russian mercenaries Aïgbado massacre, killed at least 65 civilians in Aïgbado and Yanga villages. In March 2022, they launched a March 2022 attacks in the Central African Republic, large offensive against armed groups in the northern part of the country, during which they reportedly killed hundreds of civilians, mostly artisanal miners. In April 2022 a 2022 Gadzi clashes, series of intercommunal clashes involving 3R rebels and pro-government faction of Anti-balaka led to dozens of deaths and displacement of more than 1,000 people in Gadzi. On 4 December 2022 leader of four armed groups (MLCJ, RPRC, UFR and UFR-R) signed in Bangui an agreement announcing their dissolution.

Atrocities

Religious cleansing

It is argued that the focus of the initial disarmament efforts exclusively on the Séléka inadvertently handed the anti-Balaka the upper hand, leading to the forced displacement of Muslim civilians by anti-Balaka in Bangui and western CAR. While comparisons were often posed as the "next Rwandan genocide, Rwanda", others suggested that the Bosnian Genocide's may be more apt as people were moving into religiously cleansed neighbourhoods. Even as Séléka was closing in on the capital, clashes began in Bangui's PK5 neighborhood, where members of ethnic groups with ties to ''Séléka'' were attacked, such as the Gula. After the withdrawal of Séléka leaders from Bangui, there was a wave of attacks against Muslims with anti-Muslim pogroms and looting of Muslim neighborhoods, including the lynching of the Muslim former Health Minister Dr. Joseph Kalite by Christian self-defence groups. Accounts state of lynch mobs, including that of uniformed soldiers, stoning or hacking Muslims then dismembering and burning their bodies in the streets. In 2014, Amnesty International reported several massacres committed by the anti-balakas against Muslim civilians, forcing thousands of Muslims to flee the country. Other sources report incidents of Muslims being cannibalized. On 10 April, MISCA troops escorted over 1,000 Muslims fleeing to Chad with a police source saying "not a single Muslim remains in Bossangoa." The Muslim population of Bangui dropped 99% from 138,000 to 900. In 2015, Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said 417 of the country's 436 mosques had been destroyed, and Muslim women were so scared of going out in public they were giving birth in their homes instead of going to the hospital.

Eric Danboy Bagale, head of former president François Bozizé's guard and head of the mostly Christian anti-Balaka militias, was arrested in Paris on 19 September, 2020 in Middle Africa, 2020 for war crimes in relation to revenge killings.

Ethnic violence

Much of the tension is also over historical antagonism between agriculturalists, who largely comprise Anti-balaka and nomadic groups, who largely comprise Séléka fighters. There was ethnic violence during fighting between the Ex-Séléka militias FPRC and UPC, with the FPRC targeting Fulani people who largely make up the UPC and the UPC targeting the Kara people, Gula and Aiki language, Runga people, who largely make up FPRC, as being sympathetic to FPRC. In November 2016 fighting in Bria, Central African Republic, Bria that killed 85 civilians, FPRC was reported targeting Fulani people in house-to-house searches, lootings, abductions and killings.

Within the FPRC, the Gula wing attacked the Runga wing in Ndele in April 2020, with at least 25 people being killed.{{cite news, url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/4/30/dozens-killed-in-northeast-central-african-republic-clashes, title=Dozens killed in northeast Central African Republic clashes, date=30 April 2020, access-date=13 January 2021

It is also reported that in 2019, violence broke out in the northeastern region, where the killing of an ethnic Kara people, Kara man sparked heavy fighting between the mainly Kara MLCJ and largely Runga FPRC.

Violence against aid workers and crime

In 2015, humanitarian aid workers in the CAR were involved in more than 365 security incidents, more than Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. By 2017, more than two-thirds of all health facilities have been damaged or destroyed.{{cite web, url=http://reliefweb.int/report/central-african-republic/central-african-republic-clashes-could-trigger-humanitarian, title=Central African Republic clashes could trigger humanitarian 'catastrophe' – agencies, publisher=Relief Web, date=3 March 2017, access-date=4 March 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303220309/http://reliefweb.int/report/central-african-republic/central-african-republic-clashes-could-trigger-humanitarian, archive-date=3 March 2017, url-status=live The crimes are often committed by individuals not associated with any armed rebel groups. There have been jail breaks with more than 500 inmates escaping from Nagaragba Central Prison, including fighters of both Christian and Muslim militias. By 2017, only eight of 35 prisons function and few courts operate outside the capital. The international press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders said it was concerned that the rebel attacks were taking their toll on the ability of radio stations to operate in the CAR, with condemnation of the killing of journalist Elisabeth Blanche Olofio, who worked for Radio Bé-Oko which is part of a network of apolitical radio stations known as L'Association des Radios Communautaires de Centrafrique.

Fatalities

2013

Total fatalities were 2,286 – at least 2,396.
:March to April — around 130 people killed in Bangui. 78 bodies in Bangui a week after captured by rebels.
:12 June — villagers killed.
:21 August — killed during the month.{{cite web , url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/crisiswatch/crisiswatch-database.aspx?CountryIDs=%7b09F69924-3E63-461D-96FE-A0B25D54EFEB%7d , title=CrisisWatch Database , publisher=International Crisis Group , access-date=2 January 2014 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160705012149/http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/crisiswatch/crisiswatch-database.aspx?CountryIDs=%7B09F69924-3E63-461D-96FE-A0B25D54EFEB%7D , archive-date=5 July 2016 , url-status=dead {{Clarify, date=December 2022
:9 September — Bouca violence – 73-153 killed.
:6 October — 14 killed.
:9 October — 30-60 killed in clashes.
:12 October — 6 killed.
:December — 600+ killed in "Battle of Bangui", as antibalaka militias unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow Djotodia. Two children were beheaded with a total of 16 children killed in Bangui in late December.

2014

: 22 January — people were killed after gunmen in Bouar attacked a convoy in an attempt to halt Muslim refugees trying to flee the violence.
:February — 75 people were killed in the town of Boda, Lobaye, Boda, in Lobaye province, according to a local priest. Anti-balaka militants attacked Guen resulting in the deaths of 60 people. As a result, hundreds of Muslim refugees sought shelter at a church in Carnot, Central African Republic, Carnot.
:29 March — Chadian peacekeepers not a part of MISCA entered Bangui's PK12 district market and allegedly indiscriminately opened fire resulting in 30 deaths and over 300 injuries.
:30 March — A Muslim throws a grenade at a group of Christian mourners resulting in 11 deaths.
:May — Séléka rebels kill at least 30 at a Catholic church compound.
: 23 June — Anti-balaka forces killed 18 at Bambari. Several Séléka then killed 10 anti-balaka.
: 8 July — 17 people were killed when Séléka forces attacked a Catholic church in Bambari.
:August — 34 people were reported killed by Séléka fighters around Mbrès.

2015

:September — At least 42 people were reported killed.

2016

: 25 October — people were reported killed in Bambari.

2017

:Anti-balaka attacked Bangassou, slaughtering dozens of Muslim civilians as well as 12 UN peacekeepers.

2019

:May — 3R massacres more than 50 people in several villages in the northwest.

2020

:February — Members of the Popular Front for the Rebirth of Central Africa (FPRC) attacked MINUSCA forces in Birao, leading to 12 FPRC forces being killed.{{cite news , url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/car-12-rebels-killed-clash-troops-200219055431824.html , publisher=Al Jazeera , title=CAR says 12 rebels killed in clash with UN troops , date=19 February 2020 , agency=Agence France-Presse
:April — At least 25 people killed in Ndele when the Gula faction of the FPRC attacked the Runga faction.
:December — 3 UN peacekeepers from Burundi were killed in Dekoa{{Cite news, date=2020-12-26, title=UN peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic on eve of election, language=en-GB, work=BBC News, url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55451763, access-date=2020-12-26

2021

:January — One UN peacekeeper killed when CPC launched an attack on Bangui.

Displaced people

In May 2014, it was reported that around 600,000 people in CAR were internally displaced with 160,000 of these in the capital Bangui. By May 2014, 100,000 people had fled to neighbouring Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad. As of 2017, there are more than 1.1 million displaced people in a country of about 5 million people, the highest ever recorded in the country, with about half a million refugees outside CAR and about 600,000 internally displaced. Cameroon hosted the most refugees, more than 135,000, about 90% of whom are Fulani, even though they constituted 6% of CAR's population.

In December 2020, after a contested election rebels -known as the Coalition of Patriots for Change or the CPC have seized main roadways and prevented the flow of goods into Bouar. These and other similar efforts have caused an estimated 100,000 to leave their homes. A month later, January 2021 in the Central African Republic, 2021, the number had doubled to 200,000, including 92,000 refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and 13,000 in Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon.{{cite news , title=Central African Republic's capital in 'apocalyptic situation' as rebels close in , url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/central-african-republics-capital-apocalyptic-224036207.html , access-date=30 January 2021 , work=news.yahoo.com , publisher=BBC World News , date=30 January 2021

International response

Organizations

*African Union – Yayi Boni, then-chairman of the African Union, held a press conference in Bangui, stating, "I beg my rebellious brothers, I ask them to cease hostilities, to make peace with President Bozizé and the Central African people ... If you stop fighting, you are helping to consolidate peace in Africa. African people do not deserve all this suffering. The African continent needs peace and not war."{{cite news, url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-troops-central-african-republic-18094338#.UOD-7W-1XDQ, title=African Union Head Visits Central African Republic, last=Marboua, first=Hippolyte, date=30 December 2012, work=ABC News, access-date=31 December 2012, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231054159/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-troops-central-african-republic-18094338#.UOD-7W-1XDQ, archive-date=31 December 2012, url-status=live Boni went on to call for dialogue between the current government and the rebels. The African Union suspended the Central African Republic from its membership on 25 March 2013.
*{{flagu, European Union – On 21 December 2012 the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton called on the armed rebel groups to "cease all hostilities and to respect the Libreville Comprehensive Peace Agreement." European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid Kristalina Georgieva added that she was deeply worried over the situation in the country and that she strongly urged "all armed groups to respect international humanitarian law and the activities of humanitarians". On 1 January Ashton once again expressed concern over the violence and urged all parties involved to "take all necessary measures to end, without delay, all exactions against populations in Bangui neighbourhoods that undermine chances of a peaceful dialogue."
**On 10 February 2014, the European Union established a military operation entitled EUFOR RCA, with the aim "to provide temporary support in achieving a safe and secure environment in the Bangui area, with a view to handing over to African partners." The French Major General Philippe Pontiès was appointed as a commander of this force.
*{{flagu, United Nations – On 26 December 2012 the U.N. announced it was pulling all non-essential personnel out of the country due to the worsening security situation. In a statement, Secretary-General of the United Nations, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the rebels' advance and warned that it had the potential to "gravely undermine the peace agreements in place." He also called on the government "to ensure the safety and security of U.N. personnel and its premises." On 31 January 2020, the United Nations Security Council approved an extension of an arms embargo against the Central African Republic until 31 July 2020.

Countries

;Regional
* {{flagu, Gabon/{{flagu, Chad/{{flagu, Cameroon/{{flagu, Congo/{{flagu, Equatorial Guinea sent troops in 2013 to make up an African Union Multinational Force for Central Africa (FOMAC) peacekeeping force in CAR.

;Others
* {{flagu, Brazil – On 25 December 2012, the Ministry of External Relations (Brazil), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil issued a statement "urging the parties to observe an immediate cessation of hostilities and any acts of violence against the civilian population" and called for "the restoration of institutional legality in the Central African Republic". The Brazilian government stated that it had been in contact with the small number of Brazilian nationals residing in the country.
* {{flagu, Estonia – On 9 May 2014, sent 55 troops to join the EU's EUFOR RCA mission.
* {{flagu, Georgia – 140 troops joined EU's military mission in the Central African Republic.{{cite web, url=http://civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=27322, title=Civil.Ge – Georgian Troops Heading to EU Mission in Central African Republic, access-date=7 June 2014, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701132934/http://civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=27322, archive-date=1 July 2014, url-status=live
* {{flagu, France – On 27 December 2012, CAR President Francois Bozizé requested international assistance to help with the rebellion, in particular from France and the United States. French President François Hollande rejected the plea, saying that the 250 French troops stationed at Bangui M'Poko International Airport are there "in no way to intervene in the internal affairs". Separately, a Foreign Ministry statement condemned "the continued hostility by the rebel groups", adding that the only solution to the crisis was dialogue.
*{{flagu, South Africa – South Africa had South African military assistance to the Central African Republic, numerous troops in the CAR since 2007. A South African Special Forces, Special Forces unit protected President Bozizé under Operation Morero and a second group trained FACA under Operation Vimbezela. Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula traveled to Bangui on 31 December 2012 to assess the situation. On 8 January 2013 the South African National Defence Force deployed 200 additional troops to the CAR, half of the force authorized by President Jacob Zuma. On 21 March President Bozizé traveled to Pretoria to meet with Zuma,{{cite news, last=AFP , title=Afrique du Sud: le président centrafricain Bozizé reçu par Zuma , agency=Agence France-Presse , location=Pretoria , access-date=31 March 2013 , date=22 March 2013 , url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gmGngIwQX3YyA1ZGb-Wq6lNC8pAQ?docId=CNG.a001582fa2ac6c6e42cdc154447481db.c81 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411021000/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gmGngIwQX3YyA1ZGb-Wq6lNC8pAQ?docId=CNG.a001582fa2ac6c6e42cdc154447481db.c81 , url-status=dead , archive-date=11 April 2013 allegedly to discuss the 72-hour ultimatum that the rebels had given him.
{{cite news
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, first = Glynnis
, author2 = Mmanaledi Mataboge
, title = CAR: Timely warnings were ignored
, work = Mail and Guardian
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The South African troops from the 1 Parachute Battalion suffered 13 killed and 27 wounded while defending against the advancing Séléka. On 24 March 2013 SANDF soldiers began withdrawing to Entebbe air base, with the reported intention to return to the CAR to retake control from Séléka.
* {{flagu, United States of America – On 17 December 2012 the United States Department of State, State Department's Overseas Security Advisory Council#Overseas Security Advisory Council, Overseas Security Advisory Council published an emergency message warning US citizens about armed groups active in Mbrès and advising them to avoid travel outside Bangui. US Embassy personnel were prohibited from traveling by road outside the capital. On 24 December the State Department issued another warning. All non-essential personnel were evacuated, and the embassy switched to limited emergency consular services. On 28 December, the Central African Republic–United States relations, United States Embassy in Bangui suspended operations due to the ongoing rebel attacks; with Ambassador Laurence D. Wohlers and his diplomatic staff evacuating the country.
* {{flagu, Serbia – In accordance with Security Council's Resolution 2149, Government of Serbia approved engagement of Serbian Armed Forces. On 20 September 2014 two military observers and two staff officers are deployed. Later, on 11 December 2014, 68 more personnel have been deployed in this mission. On 15 December 2016, Serbia deployed team for emergency medical assistance and level 1 medical team, as part of the EUTM RCA (European Union Training Mission).{{cite web, url=http://www.mnop.mod.gov.rs/sadrzaj.php?id_sadrzaja=199&active=text, title=EUTM RCA- Serbian Armed Forces, date=15 December 2016, website=Official Portal of multinational missions, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728115156/http://www.mnop.mod.gov.rs/sadrzaj.php?id_sadrzaja=199&active=text, archive-date=28 July 2017, url-status=dead, access-date=30 June 2017

See also

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Further reading

In Search of the State in the Central African Republic

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