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Significance
The apparent rapprochement follows years of frosty relations between the two countries, since the arrival of Russia’s Wagner Group in the CAR. Touadera recently scored a major political victory with a successful constitutional referendum allowing him to run for a third presidential term in 2025.
Impacts
Local elections, last held in 1988, may take place next year.
Debt service payment will hamper the government’s social spending.
Touadera may seek to manage ruling party dissensions with strategic appointments.
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