IS THE REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO TURNING TO AN AFRICAN AFGHANISTAN AGAINST PRESIDENT FAUSTIN TOUADERA? UN SECURITY COUNCIL EXPERTS SAY YES
The report of the experts of the United Nations Security Council has shown that from 2016 to 2019, the Brazzaville regime hosted, armed and supported the war criminal Abdoulaye Miskine in his attempts to destabilize the Bangui regime. It appeared that Sassou Nguesso had intervened to free Miskine from Cameroonian prisons in 2014.
In its mid-term report of 2019, the Group of Experts described Miskine’s radical opposition to the Agreement and to the Central African authorities and how it had collaborated with officials of the FPRC, in particular “general” Bashar Fadoul, when he left Brazzaville to return to Central African territory in June 2019.
The Panel of Experts has established that Miskine travelled with a service passport issued by the Republic of the Congo. Since a 2007 bilateral agreement, France has guaranteed a free of charge circulation visa to the beneficiaries of this type of passport for two years in the Schengen area. Thus, Miskine can potentially travel freely into the Schengen space since.
In a press release dated July 30, 2019, Miskine again threatened to overthrow the President of the Central African Republic, Faustin Archange Touadéra. He also continued to try to develop his military capabilities, in particular by recruiting members of his ethnic community, namely the Sara. He allegedly offered to the FPRC to conduct a military operation in Terfel while the fighting was underway in the Vakaga prefecture, but he had to abandon this project due to the events of October 14 in Am Dafok, which forced him to flee the city.
It is unacceptable that the Republic of Congo continues to serve as sanctuaries for war criminals and terrorists (Libyan Bureau, Guus Kouwenhoven, Bachir Saleh, Miskine, etc.) for sub-regional, continental and even global destabilization.
It is unacceptable that the diplomacy of the Republic is constantly reduced to the export of crime and bad governance. The overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in Libya and then of El Bashir in Sudan has left a void that the Brazzaville regime is determined to fill. We are witnessing the reconstitution of an African anti-democratic subversion supermarket supported by the People’s Republic of China with Brazzaville as its epicentre.
The alternative we promote necessarily involves a democratic reorientation of our country’s foreign policy.
To President Touadera we express our feelings of friendship with the people of the Central African Republic and our desire to put an end to the current diplomatic drifts.
