Experts say Russia’s involvement in Central Africa could be over just as quicky as it began.
The Kremlin-linked mercenary group Wagner has been accused of perpetrating human rights abuses in Mali and now CAR.
The attack is the latest in the mineral-rich Central African Republic which has been mired in violence since 2013.
The African nation is the world’s 2nd country to adopt the coin as currency, following in the footsteps of El Salvador.
The trial is related to the massacre of 46 civilians in the northern villages of Koundjili and Lemouna in May 2019.
The Special Criminal Court’s first trial could address a gap in accountability that has spurred decades of conflict.
Russia has deployed the Wagner Group in military operations across at least half a dozen African nations.
About 27 million people already suffer from hunger. That could rise to 38 million by June unless urgent action is taken.
Neither the opposition nor rebel groups were present at the reconciliation dialogue.
The attack comes as national reconciliation talks began this week with neither the opposition nor rebels in attendance.
Mokom, ex-leader of an Anti-balaka militia, is suspected of war crimes committed in 2013 and 2014.
UN official says the body is investigating the incident involving CAR troops and ‘other security personnel’.
The UN says about 42 percent of Central Africans struggle to access food daily as violence continues.
ICC ‘partially’ confirms charges of war crimes against alleged Seleka leader Mahamat Said Abdel Kani.
