CAR : National Consultations Begin

Consultations are ongoing in the Central African Republic (CAR), ahead are the National Dialogue. The National Consultations that began yesterday, April 18, 2021 are in line with a promised made by President Faustin-Archange Touadera last March during his swearing in ceremony in the country’s capital Bangui. President Faustin Toudera was re-elected at the first round of the Presidential elections despite attempts by a coalition of armed groups, the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), to disrupt the exercise. 
The National Dialogue comes after incessant requests by the opposition political parties, as well as the international community, for the sons and daughters of the CAR to give peace a chance by sitting on the dialogue table and talk one-on-one without any topic being a taboo. According to the schedule, President Faustin Archange Touadera was to start receiving the first participants of the consultations yesterday with 23 members of the Bangui delegation to set the ball rolling at the Palais de la Renaissance.
Today, it will be the turn of civil society; trade unions, associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) right up to Wednesday. From Thursday to Friday, it will be an opportunity for the different religious denominations like, Protestants, Catholics and Muslims to present their grievances and solutions to the President. Finally, after a day devoted to administrators and traditional leaders from all over the country, ...