CAR President’s Rival Returns from Exile, Then is Detained

Dominique Désiré Erenon, a prominent critic of the Central African Republic’s government and leader of the MDSP party, was arrested at the airport after returning from exile in France, following President Touadéra’s call for diaspora members to come home. His detention, which lacks formal charges, has raised concerns of political intimidation ahead of upcoming elections, with civil society groups denouncing the government’s actions.

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