Mahamat Al-Khatim is a leader of

Central African Patriotic Movement Central African Patriotic Movement (MPC, french: Mouvement patriotique pour la Centrafrique) is a rebel group in the Central African Republic based in nortwestern part of the country. History MPC was formed in July 2015 by Mahamat Al-Khatim. I ...

armed group in the

Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of th ...

Biography

Mahamat Al-Khatim is a Chadian Arab belonging to the Salamat ethnic group. At some point, he rebelled against the Chadian government, but was reintegrated into the

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in 1997.Letter dated 28 October 2014 from the Panel of Experts on the Central African Republic established pursuant to Security Council resolution 2127 (2013) addressed to the President of the Security Council
/ref> He was among the so-called "liberators", fighters who had supported Bozizé's coup d’état in 2003. In 2013 he joined the

Séléka Séléka CPSK-CPJP-UFDR was an alliance of rebel militia groups that subjugated the Central African Republic (CAR) on 24 March 2013. After its official dissolution in September 2013, the remaining rebel groups became known as Ex-Séléka. Sél� ...

coalition. In July 2015 he created the

armed group which controlled areas in northern parts of the Central African Republic, including Moyenne-Sido,

Kabo Kabo is a town in the northern Central African Republic, lying north west of Kaga Bandoro. It is a market town and the border post for Chad. History The northern nomads in the Central African Republic resented the central government and a rebel ...

and

Kaga-Bandoro Kaga-Bandoro is a market town and capital of the Nana-Grébizi prefecture of the Central African Republic. It represents the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaga–Bandoro. History On 25 December 2012 rebels from Séléka coalition took ...

.Splintered wardafre
/ref> In December 2020, al-Khatim and the MPC joined the

Coalition of Patriots for Change The Coalition of Patriots for Change (''Coalition des patriotes pour le changement'') is a coalition of major rebel groups in the Central African Republic created in 2020 to disrupt the 2020–21 Central African general election. Background O ...

led by

François Bozizé François Bozizé Yangouvonda (born 14 October 1946) is a Central African politician who was President of the Central African Republic from 2003 to 2013. Bozizé rose to become a high-ranking army officer in the 1970s, under the rule of Jean-B� ...

. He ordered his fighters to attack Bangui in January 2021. Due to the failure of this coup attempt, al-Khatim was forced to flee the Central African Republic and, as of June 2021, he resides in the capital of Chad,

N'Djamena N'Djamena ( ) is the capital and largest city of Chad. It is also a special statute region, divided into 10 districts or ''arrondissements''. The city serves as the centre of economic activity in Chad. Meat, fish and cotton processing are the ...

.François Bozizé et d'autres chefs rebelles centrafricains se trouvent à Ndjamena
7 November 2021

References

Living people People of the Central African Republic Civil War African warlords Chadian rebels Year of birth missing (living people) {{CentralAfricanRepublic-bio-stub