In the Central African Republic, Bozizé plots his comeback

There is no indication at this point whether the current CAR authorities will attempt to pursue the case against Bozizé — and this is telling. Bozizé can return to Bangui without fear of arrest and assume that the country wants him back in the top office. This is, without exaggeration, worse than the ANC deciding Zuma should once again be its candidate for president.Bozizé, like those before him, did virtually nothing for the development of his country.

History is something to learn from. Bozizé cannot be trusted. Nor can most of the current long-in-the-tooth crop of politicians. They had the job to build a country and they failed. It is criminal to allow the same group of politicians to remain at the helm. It is a waste of money and effort to expect different results from recycled peacekeeping missions that could lead to a transitional administration, a curatorship — along the lines of what the UN did in Kosovo, East Timor or Cambodia — providing time to help build capacity in a new civil service, police force, army, education and health sector.

David L Smith is executive director of Okapi Consulting, a media organisation that sets up and manages radio services in zones of conflict and fragile states. He is founder of Radio Ndarason Internationale in the Lake Chad basin, Radio Okapi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Radio Minusca in the Central African Republic, Radio Bar-Kulan in Somalia, a former producer at Radio Netherlands and Radio Canada International, and former station manager and head of programmes at Capital Radio.

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