Nigeria, Sept. 15 -- Since his re-election in 2021, Central African Republic (CAR) President Faustin-Archange Touadera has enjoyed several diplomatic and military successes. In 2024, the United Nations Security Council lifted its embargo on arms to the Central African Armed Forces, and the Kimberley Process lifted its suspension on diamond exports.

At the head of a country long regarded as the region's most problematic, Mr Touadera now seems to be on an equal footing with his peers. In 2023, he was appointed the Economic Community of Central African States' facilitator in the crisis in Gabon.

In the military realm, after Francois Bozize's Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) tried unsuccessfully to seize power in 2021, armed groups ha...