After Ahmat Chaltout’s assassination, Wagner splits Ouham between rival MPC factions
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Corbeau News Centrafrique
Forty-eight hours after the assassination of former MPC chief of staff Ahmat Chaltout, Russian mercenaries from Wagner have imposed a division of the Ouham and Ouham-Fafa prefectures, with the tacit approval of Bangui. The mining zones, including Ab-Iref, Kota-Gbara, Mandjam-Djou and Fiêsse, go to the clan of Djido Ali, while movement founder Mahamat Alkhatim is sidelined, according to Corbeau News.
The Russian group Wagner is imposing its territorial rule in the Ouham and Ouham-Fafa prefectures, where it has decreed a partition of the area between rival factions of the Patriotic Movement for the Central African Republic (MPC), according to Corbeau News Centrafrique. A three-day ultimatum has been issued to fighters and residents: anyone who breaks the rules will be considered caught in the act.
This division comes forty-eight hours after the assassination of former MPC chief of staff Ahmat Chaltout. According to the same outlet, it assigns the mining zones of Ab-Iref, Kota-Gbara, Mandjam-Djou and Fiêsse to the clan of former leader Djido Ali. Loyalists of the movement’s founder, Mahamat Alkhatim, have been relegated beyond the Nana river, to the villages of Sabo, Djermere and Conteneur, which have no mineral resources.
Corbeau News Centrafrique accuses the institutions in Bangui and President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of active complicity with these mercenaries, in a context where state authority on this territory is said to have collapsed.
