This time just over a year ago, Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera, a polygamist like nearly all his predecessors, was almost banished to the sofa. But he wasn’t dealing with wife troubles; it was more life-threatening, and he survived thanks to heavy-handed intervention by East Africans.
With presidential and legislative elections looming in CAR on December 27, 2020, yet another rebel grouping, the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), upped their attacks and called on President Touadera to suspend them. Voting went ahead, and he was re-elected, amid outcry from the opposition.
