Faustin-Archange Touadera

Touadera sworn in for third term in deeply unstable CAR

Critics call the 68-year-old mathematician ‘President Wagner’ after the Russian private military company that provides Touadera’s security and supports his army against rebel groups
Sandwiched between war-wracked Sudan and the (DRC) among other countries, the security situation in CAR has eased since the civil war of the 2010s but it remains ‘fragile’

By AFP · 30 March 2026