CAR peace agreement

Last month the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and fourteen armed groups signed a long-awaited peace agreement aiming to end the country's devastating civil war. While this is one of many peace deals signed in CAR before, citizens shall have to take a wait and see approach whether the deal will benefit them. Meanwhile according to a United Nations 2016 report, human rights violations increased by seventy-per cent in CAR compared to the period covered by the first report in 2015. To assist us on the environment before elections we speak to:• Catherina Wilson is a researcher at the History Department of the Leiden University (The Netherlands) she concluded her doctorate in conflict and mobility in Central Africa and the DRC).• Caesar Poblicks is an East and Central African Project Manager at Conciliation Resources.• Dr Shingai Mutizwa – Mangiza is a post-doctoral fellow at the department of political studies at the University of the Western Cape.