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Another tin-pot dictator stands on the cliff edge

By Peter Wanyonyi

It’s rough being the Central African Republic (Car). This, after all, is the unfortunate country that was converted into an ‘empire’ by the deranged ‘Emperor’ Jean-Bedel Bokassa in 1976, after he had misruled it for the previous eleven years as ‘President For life’.

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