Africa: Will the Central African Republic's Elections Create More Problems Than They Solve?

11 December 2015
analysis

In light of the CAR's recent disintegration, many doubt whether the elections scheduled for this month can be held safely and fairly.

In early May of this year, following more than two years of intercommunal violence in the Central African Republic, positive news was finally coming out of Bangui, the riverside capital. Nearly 700 delegates, representing the interim government, political parties, civil society, traditional chiefs, religious communities and armed groups, had just concluded a peace and reconciliation forum. The gathering yielded several key agreements designed to deliver the CAR from a hellish cycle of tit for tat slaughter and mass displacement.

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