Sandra Boodhun

Central African Republic
Touadéra all set for India-Africa summit

Fresh from Nairobi, where he attended the Africa Forward summit, the Central African president is preparing to embark on a new round of diplomatic engagements, with visits slated in Moscow and New Delhi.

Central African Republic, Madagascar
Close Touadéra allies deepen Bangui–Antananarivo axis

A pair of special advisers to the Central African president was received by the head of the Malagasy junta, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, just after he sent an emissary to the Central African capital for talks with senior Wagner figures.

Central African Republic
President Touadéra's special adviser behind cryptocurrency relaunch

The Central African presidency is working to reactivate its cryptocurrency projects, which have been at a standstill for months.

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Faustin-Archange Touadéra

Intrigues big and small – every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

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Central African Republic, South Africa
Touadéra pays visit to Gupta brothers' Indian base

The Central African president Faustin Archange Touadéra recently travelled to Dehradun to meet the Gupta brothers, who have applied for asylum in his country to escape prosecution in South Africa.

Central African Republic
Gupta brothers play honorary consul for Touadera

The Gupta brothers, Atul and Rajesh who wants to demonstrate the range of their connections to President Faustin-Archange Touade, organised a meeting for him with an Indian investor presenting himself as a vice president of India's Bharatiya Janata Party.

South Africa
Gupta brothers spotted in Switzerland

The Gupta brothers are not actually in custody in the UAE and have used their South African passports to travel and do business. They were last spotted in Switzerland.

Central African Republic
Nicolae Buzaianu goes for gold in Bangui

Swiss-Romanian businessman Nicolae Bogdan Buzaianu wants to invest in gold in CAR. He met with President Faustin-Archange Touadera to discuss buying or building a foundry there.

Central African Republic
Special adviser Sandra Boodhun turns to homeland Mauritius to build trade

The latest initiative to replenish CAR's dwindling cash supplies comes from special adviser, Sandra Boodhun of Mauritius.

Central African Republic
The battle of Touadéra's true and false bitcoin advisers

The CAR's bitcoin policy is drawing attention, as proved by several businessmen in recent weeks.

Central Africa
Nicolae Buzaianu pitches bitcoin venture in CAR

Swiss-Romanian businessman Nicolae Bogdan Buzaianu, who is energetically courting officials in the Central African Republic, is looking beyond timber into generating cryptocurrency and setting up bitcoin mining centres in the country.

Central Africa
Controversial trader Nicolae Buzaianu reinvents himself in Bangui

For a time the partner of the ex-Gambian president Yahya Jammeh in a rosewood venture, the Swiss-Romanian trader Nicolae Bogdan Buzaianu, whose business activities in both Gambia and Romania have attracted judicial scrutiny, has met with CAR president Faustin-Archange Touadéra several times of late.