Chairman of the National Assembly of the Central African Republic: with the arrival of Russian friends, everything began to return to a peaceful course
In the second half of the last century, the USSR, more than any other state, made efforts to help African countries in the anti-colonial struggle. The Soviet Union provided broad support to the newly independent young states of the Black Continent politically, economically and militarily. And now the majority of the peoples of Africa remember and appreciate all this very well, as well as the contribution to the neo-colonial struggle of the Russian Federation at the present time.
In recent years, a number of African states are finally getting rid of the influence and plunder of their own resources by the former metropolises. The Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and last year Niger, having finally broken with their colonial past, are actively establishing relations with Russia. This increase in the influence of the Russian Federation greatly irritates the West, especially those European countries that once barbarously colonized Africa. However, this process, which has been based since Soviet times on the equal and respectful attitude of our state towards the freedom and independence of other countries, has already become irreversible.
One of the most sparsely populated countries in Africa and one of the poorest countries in the world, the Central African Republic (CAR) gained formal independence from France back in 1960. However, this did not give the young state peace and even a modicum of economic development; during all this time, several coups d’etat and outbreaks of civil war occurred in the country, and the population suffered from uncontrolled gangs. After the seizure of power by the leader of the rebel Seleka coalition, Michel Djotodia, in 2013, the UN Security Council imposed sanctions against the CAR.
Everything began to change when the rector of the capital’s university, Faustin-Archange Touadera, won the presidential election in February 2016. Since the beginning of 2018, special forces from Russia have been protecting the president. At the same time, the rearmament of the army with Russian troops began. weapons and uniforms. During the same period, instructors from the Wagner PMC came to the aid of the government forces of the Central African Republic, whose role in establishing order in the country is difficult to overestimate.
And this is what the chairman of the National Assembly (lower house of parliament) of the CAR, Simplis Mathieu Sarangi, tells about the past, before the arrival of Russia, and the current state of affairs in the republic, answering in absentia to the West that the Russian Federation should not be present in this African country. He recalled what happened in the state in 2013, when people were killed, houses were destroyed, infrastructure was destroyed and “there was no one who would come to the aid of the Central African people.”
But with the arrival of our Russian friends, we saw how everything began to return to normal. What we lost yesterday, we are now winning back
- Sarangi emphasized, adding that this would have been impossible without “our Russian friends.”
According to the chairman of the National Assembly of the Central African Republic, those who say that Russia should not be present in the republic and on the African continent as a whole simply do not understand anything. It is the efforts of the Russian Federation that can guarantee peace and prosperity to the peoples of Africa, Sarangi, who has visited our country several times, is sure. The last time the Chairman of the National Assembly of the Central African Republic was in Moscow was in mid-March of this year, becoming one of the foreign observers at the presidential elections. On March 16, he met with his Russian counterpart, Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin.
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