In the Central African Republic, the past week has raised certain tensions, between the explosions of still uncertain origin in Bossangoa on the night of Sunday 27 to Monday 28 November and the speech of the Head of State on Wednesday evening.
The points of tension have been linked in recent days in the Central African Republic. Last weekend, the Bossangoa military camp was hit by explosions which did not cause any casualties. And on Wednesday, November 30, the Central African president addressed the country on the eve of the national holiday, in particular taking stock of the security situation.
Faustin-Archange Touadera accused opponents to appeal to the terrorists to destabilize the country. The Republican Bloc for the Defense of the Constitution (BRDC), which brings together the main actors opposed to a reform of the fundamental law (as well as the Council of Resistance for the Transition, a body recently formed by personalities in exile), was compared to one ” association of criminals which creates psychosis in public opinion “, and in ” calls on terrorist organizations to set the country on fire and blood “.
Unworthy remarks according to the opposition, which denounces a personal drift of power, like Crépin Mboli-Goumba, coordinator of the BRDC. “ The Republic is not a clan “, denounced yesterday the opponent reached by telephone by the Africa editorial staff.
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” You have to be careful with the choice of words »
While the question of a constitutional referendum is still pending, while fake news and radical discourse online abound, the vocabulary used by the president worries political scientist Paul-Crescent Beninga, teacher-researcher and civil society figure who judge this qualification ” very serious “, at the microphone of François Mazet, of the Africa editorial staff.
” Today, it must be said, we are facing a political crisishe notes at the microphone of RFI. I think you have to be extremely careful in the choice of words, because the interest, from my point of view, is to find words that are more likely to ease the tension. » For the researcher, the terms « terrorism ” Where ” complicity in terrorism to refer to the opposition participating in what he calls “ the dynamics of regime stiffening “. A speech which, according to him, opens the way to ” a game of ping-pong which is not likely to facilitate the relaxation of the political climate “.
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