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Central African minister cites destabilisation plot to justify arrests

By , based on Corbeaunews Centrafrique

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Central African Interior Minister Bienvenu Zokoué says opposition and civil society leaders were preparing actions aimed at destabilising the institutions. In a statement on 18 October, he cited telephone messages and seized documents to justify the arrests on 15 October, reports Corbeaunews Centrafrique.

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