Central African opposition leads mass protest against Touadéra’s third-term bid

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Central African opposition leads mass protest against Touadéra’s third-term bid  The Republican Bloc for the Defense of the Constitution (BRDC) has vowed to keep up the pressure, promising more protests in the coming weeks and months  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/04/04/central-african-opposition-leads-mass-protest-against-touaderas-third-term-bid  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00With tightly packed ranks, holding hands and marching in unison to the Central African

00:06Republic's national anthem, nearly 5,000 protesters rallied behind opposition lawmakers

00:12to reject a third term for President Faustin Akanje Ntundera.

00:16Demonstrators flooded the streets of Bangui waving banners that read, Stop the Third Term.

00:23The opposition praised the strong turnout, particularly among young people.

00:28As it nears the end of a second term, it manipulates public funds to claim that the people want

00:34a third term.

00:35But today is a victory for Central African people.

00:38Why?

00:39Because 90 percent of those who marched from Jackson Bridge to Bonga Da monument were young

00:45people.

00:46Adults accounted for less than 10 percent.

00:48This proves that the youth are aware of their future and refuse to be intimidated by a machine

00:54of pressure made up of Russian Wagner and mercenaries.

00:58The Central African youth have said no.

01:09While denouncing the intimidation tactics linked to the Wagner group, protesters also

01:14criticize what they see as the government's failures, particularly in the public services.

01:21The country is grappling with severe water shortages, a crumbling health care system

01:26and a failing education sector.

01:31Even in Bangui, the issue of parent-teacher persists.

01:34It's a crisis, and yet this country is led by professors and educators.

01:39They should have prioritized fixing the education system, but instead it's collapsing.

01:46Given the dire conditions Central Africans face, we in the BRDC have mobilized to tell

01:52President Tundera no third term.

01:58The Republican bloc, on the defense of the constitution, BRDC, had vowed to sustain the

02:04pressure through continued mass demonstrations in the coming weeks and months until the government

02:11backs down.

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