CAR President Wants Arms Embargo Lifted

The president of the Central African Republic says he wants the United Nations to lift the arms embargo on his country. In an interview Wednesday with VOA's French to Africa service, Faustin-Archange Touadera said the embargo, imposed in 2013, was once justified but argued, "It is no longer the case." "There have been elections, a legitimate government was formed, as [was] the National Assembly," he said. "We are putting in place democratic institutions and...

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