AFP: C.Africa vote faces credibility question

Central African Republic has staged presidential and legislative elections, defying many who predicted a disaster in a country hamstrung by strife and weak governance.

Sunday’s vote is a key step for Africa’s most troubled state — a byword for grinding poverty and militia brutality, still wracked by a civil war that erupted in 2013.

In the week before the election, the government accused a coalition of armed groups of working with an ex-president to topple President Faustin Archange Touadera, and three UN peacekeepers were killed…

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