Ali Darassa
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Ali Darassa Mahamat | |
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| Born | July 23, 1965 |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
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| Allegiance | Union for Peace in the Central African Republic |
| Years of service | 2014-present |
Ali Darassa Mahamat (born 23 July 1965), also known as Ali Nassaraza Darassa, Ali Daras, and Ali Ndarass is a Nigerian leader of the Central African rebel group, the Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (UPC), which is dominant around Bambari.[1] He is an ethnic Fula[2] and his UPC is largely Fula. Darassa was the right-hand man of Chadian rebel leader, Abdel Kader Baba-Laddé until Baba-Laddé abandoned his armed struggle in September 2012.[3] The UPC is an Ex-Séléka faction made up of disbanded members of the former rebel coalition known as Séléka. Starting in November 2016, another Ex-Séléka faction, the FPRC, allied with their former enemy, the Anti-balaka, and attacked UPC.[4][5] The fighting displaced 20,000 and was ethnic in nature with the FPRC singling out Fulani people.[6][5] He is reportedly well studied in past UN peacekeeping missions in order to deal with the peacekeeping mission known as MINUSCA in the country.[7]
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References
- ^ "One day we will start a big war". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ In French: Peul. In Template:Lang-ff (pl. Fulɓe).
- ^ "Blog of the storytellers" (in French). tribautribarblogspot. 27 October 2015.
- ^ "Central African Republic: Executions by rebel group". Human Rights Watch. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
- ^ a b "U.N. 'KILLS REBEL COMMANDER' IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AIRSTRIKES". Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- ^ "U.N. air strikes in Central African Republic kill several: militia". Reuters. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- ^ "Peacekeeping, African warlords and Donald Trump". BBC news. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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