CAIRO (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 10th January, 2019) The next round of peace talks between the leaders of the key armed groups of the Central African Republic (CAR) will be held in Sudan's capital on January 24, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
This decision was made during a high-level meeting in the car capital of Bangui on Tuesday, the ministry noted.
"It has been noted, that Sudan is the biggest support for the peace process there [in the CAR]. The United Nations, the African Union and other participants have welcomed [the decision on] holding the talks in Khartoum," the ministry said in a statement.
The CAR has been suffering from sectarian clashes between the Muslims and the Christians since the 2013 coup, when the Muslim Seleka rebels seized control of the nation, overthrowing then-President Francois Bozize and provoking a backlash from the Christian Anti-Balaka militia.
In August, the two groups agreed to establish a platform for consultations on sustainable peace in the CAR. The groups then also called on the government to engage in work on reconciliation with support from Russia, the European Union and other regional and international players.
Andrei Kemarsky, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's African Department, told Sputnik in December, that Moscow was ready to mediate the political process in the CAR, provided that the African country's government and the opposition address Moscow with such a request.
