A Central African delegation leaves Ndjamena this Saturday after spending the week in the Chadian capital. Led by the minister in charge of the demobilization, disarmament, reintegration and repatriation (DDRR) process, Jean Willibiro Sako, she met Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby on Wednesday before negotiating the conditions for the return of rebel leader Mahamat al-Khatim to the framework of the Khartoum peace agreement.
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The emissaries of Faustin-Archange Touadera requested the good offices of Chad in ongoing negotiations with certain rebel leaders that Bangui is trying to bring back under the 2019 peace agreement.
One of them, Mahamat Al Khatim, broke ranks with the CPC coalition a month ago. He met the Central African delegation on Thursday in the presence of the Chadian Minister of Public Security, Mahamat Charfadine Margui.
The leader of the Patriotic Movement for Central African Republic requests amnesty for the life sentence handed down against him last September. According to a member of his delegation, the Central African party assured him that a solution would be “in sight”. Mahamat al-Khatim could then return to the Central African Republic, his men join the demobilization program and the MPC be dissolved.
The movement claims more than 5,000 fighters in the regions of Birao and Amdafock, close to Sudan. A figure that is largely overestimated, according to certain sources who nevertheless underline that Mahamat al-Khatim is a “ good catch » for Bangui because of its ability to play on cross-border links between Chad and the Central African Republic.