At the UN-sponsored Least Developed Countries (LDC) summit in Doha on Sunday, Central African Republic (CAR) President Faustin-Archange Touadéra accused the West of “fuelling political instability” to plunder the country’s wealth and hindering its development.
He said that the Central African Republic (CAR) has been “a victim of geostrategic aims linked to its natural resources” since its independence.
He also said that political instability is facilitated by armed terrorist groups whose “leaders are foreign mercenaries”, in order to prevent the state from exercising its right of sovereignty over natural reserves.”
The president asked why his country, “endowed with an immense geological treasure – gold, diamonds, strategic raw materials including cobalt, uranium, oil – still unexploited, remains one of the poorest countries in the world more than 60 years after independence”.