It has hence been considered disloyal by the two northerner presidents Patassé and Bozizé, both of whom have equipped and run their own militias outside FACA.

Although Francois Bozizé has a background in FACA himself ( being its chief-of-staff from 1997 to 2001 ), he has been cautious by retaining the defence portfolio, as well as by appointing his son Jean-Francis Bozizé cabinet director in charge of running the Ministry of Defence.

President François Bozizé has said that one of his priorities is to get the support of the international community.

Bozizé, who has received much support from President Déby, immediately decided to close the C. A. R .- Sudan border ( a decision which he has no capacity at all to enforce ).

Bozizé has surprisingly good relations both with the DRC President Joseph Kabila and the former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba.

Bozizé has strengthened military presence along the border and deployed an amphibious force patrolling the Ubangi river.

It is not known whether these agreements are still valid, but Bozizé has anyway a continuously good relation with Libya.

Given that Bozizé accuses Sudan of supporting the UFDR rebels who are actively fighting the Central African Government, the relation between the two countries has remained good.

Bozizé even planned to visit Khartoum in December 2006, but had to cancel his trip when Chad ( which has strained relations with the Sudanese Government ) threatened to withdraw its military support to C. A. R.

In addition to being President, Bozizé has been Minister of National Defense since taking power.

Since 2003, when President François Bozizé came to power, thousands of citizens of the Central African Republic have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the escalating conflict between armed rebels and government troops.

On May 24, 2004, Bozizé approved 30 members of CEMI who had been chosen by three groups: political parties, professional groups, and the national administration.

His appointment as Prime Minister by President François Bozizé on 13 June 2005, following a presidential and parliamentary election, was considered surprising ; Doté, who had previously been working outside the country in Tunis for the ADB, was at the time largely unknown in CAR.

On 15 March 2003 rebels who controlled part of the country moved into Bangui and installed their commander, General François Bozizé, as president, while President Patassé was out of the country.

in negotiating a peace agreement was signed in Tripoli in February 2007, between President Bozizé and the head of the Front démocratique du people centrafricain ( FDPC ) rebel movement ( who is also said to have close ties to Union of Democratic Forces for Unity ( UFDR ), the rebel group that seized several cities in northern C. A. R.

During the election in 2005, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso openly supported Bozizé.

* 2003 – President Ange-Felix Patasse is overthrown in a coup by François Bozizé

** François Bozizé, President of the Central African Republic

In 2010, President François Bozizé issued a decree rehabilitating Bokassa and calling him " a son of the nation recognised by all as a great builder ".

François Bozizé Yangouvonda ( born 14 October 1946 ) is the President of the Central African Republic.

Ange-Félix Patassé ( January 25, 1937 – April 5, 2011 ) was a Central African politician who was President of the Central African Republic from 1993 until 2003, when he was deposed by the rebel leader François Bozizé.

Goumba, who was President of the Patriotic Front for Progress ( FPP ) political party, served under President François Bozizé as Prime Minister from March 2003 to December 2003 and then as Vice-President from December 2003 to March 2005.

Despite having no political experience, Gaombalet was appointed as Prime Minister by President François Bozizé on December 12, 2003, replacing Abel Goumba, who in turn became Bozizé's vice-president.

After the overthrow of Patassé, self-proclaimed President François Bozizé declared an amnesty for all those involved in the attempted coup d ' état of 2001.

In the 2005 parliamentary election, the party won three seats in the National Assembly as part of the National Convergence Kwa Na Kwa coalition, which supports President François Bozizé.

Gabon hosted a meeting in 2005, to solve the crisis following Bozizé barring of some candidates in the election.

In the 1993 election, Bozizé ran for the presidency as an independent, receiving 12, 159 votes, 1. 5 % of the total votes cast.

After seizing power, Bozizé initially said he would not run in a planned future presidential election, but after the successful constitutional referendum, he announced his intention to stand as a candidate on 11 December:

On 30 December 2004, Bozizé was one of five candidates approved to run in the presidential election scheduled for early 2005.

Bozizé placed first in the 13 March election, taking just under 43 % of the vote according to official results.

The same week, Bozizé signed a presidential decree setting the date for the next presidential election as 25 April 2010.

On March 15, before the election results became available, Bozizé dismissed Goumba from the Vice-Presidency and the position was abolished.

Bozizé ran in the election in an attempt to win a five-year term after two years as transitional leader, and ten other candidates also ran.

A run-off election between Bozizé, who won the most votes in the first round according to official results, and Martin Ziguélé, a former prime minister under Patassé, was held, and Bozizé won this second round with 64. 6 % of the vote.

Eventually, following a referendum on a new constitution on December 5, 2004, Bozizé announced his candidacy in the presidential election as an independent candidate on December 11, 2004, while speaking to supporters.

Abel Goumba also ran as the candidate of the Patriotic Front for Progress ( Front patriotique pour le progrès ); a long-time politician, he served as prime minister in the late 1950s and again from March to December 2003, following Bozizé's seizure of power, subsequently becoming vice-president under Bozizé until being dismissed shortly after the first round of the election.

Earlier in the year, Alpha Oumar Konaré, the chairman of the commission of the African Union and former president of Mali, reportedly urged Bozizé not to stand for election.

Fidèle Gouandjika, who took less than 1 % of the vote in the 1999 presidential election, withdrew in favor of Bozizé on December 23.

Partial results ( 28. 9 % of polling stations, or 1, 198 out of 4, 145 stations ) from the election on March 18 put Bozizé in the lead with about 55 % of the votes, according to the election commission: 184, 734 out of 334, 732 votes counted were for Bozizé.

On May 24, Jean Willybiro Sako announced that Bozizé had won the presidential election with 64. 6 % of the vote.

For many years Bozizé was considered a supporter of Patassé and helped him suppress army mutinies in 1996 and 1997.