After violence in 2007 in the Vakaga, the CAR government subcontracted responsibility for securing the region to the increasingly Goula dominated UFDR in return for payments back to Bangui. The Rounga, who controlled the diamond trade in all directions, were pushed off their traditional diamond fields in eastern CAR. Diamonds, along with animal poaching and agriculture, are the major commercial staples in the area, and the UFDR is suspected to be heavily involved in the two former trades. UFDR rebels were operating against the backdrop of longer term conflict between the Goula and Rounga tribes. Points of unity and conflict include cattle raids against and from the Sudanese, diamond mining rights (Goula driving the Rounga off the diamond fields), and various individual killings and compensations. In 2011 the rival groups the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) and the UFDR signed a peace treaty over control of a diamond mine near the town…
Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR)
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