Thread by @Somali_ICS

1/8 Informative thread 🧵 on Central African Republic (CAR) & its relations with #China #Russia #France after 9 Chinese mine workers are killed in CAR the same day when Chinese president Xi Jinping is in a Moscow meeting with Russia's president Vladimir Putin... #CentralAfrica

2/8 • 2021: Relations between the Central African Republic and France hit rock bottom after the Central African Republic signed a Belt and Road cooperation agreement with China in 2021

• 2021: France suspended all military cooperation with Central African Republic in 2021....

3/8 ..after France's demands against Russian cooperation failed

• 2022: The Central African Republic removed a privileged diplomatic corps deanship that had been granted to French ambassadors since 1960

• 2022: After years of protests in Central African Republic against...

4/8 ... France's interference on CAR's domestic affairs and as a result the last French troops left Central African Republic in 2022
• 2022: Central African Republic was one of the only 14 countries that voted against a 2022 United Nations resolution calling on Russia to pay...

5/8 ... war reparations to Ukraine

• 2023: 9 Chinese mine workers for Chimbolo Gold Mine are killed in the Central African Republic the same day when Chinese president Xi Jinping is holding talks in Moscow with Russia's president Vladimir Putin.....

6/8... 2023: After the killings of the Chinese miners accusations pointed the finger to a violent coalition of rebel groups in CAR The Coalition of Patriots for Change (Coalition des patriotes pour le changement) (CPC) a rebel alliance sponsored to overthrow....

7/8... president Faustin Archange Touadera who was labelled anti-France

• 2023: The Coalition of Patriots for Change coalition denied any involvement while accusing Russia's Wagner group to be behind the killings. But why accuse Russia?

Doesn't make any sense to blame Russia.

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• There is no competition between Russia and China

• There is no bad blood between Russia and China

• The presence of the Chinese and the Russians are welcomed in Central African Republic and there is no public hostility

• Why involve Africa?

• Africa needs to act!