2023-08-15 20:16:44
Central Africans demonstrate their support for the Russian presence in the country, on March 22, in Bangui. BARBARA STANDING/AFP
INVESTIGATION – Established since 2017, Evgueni Prigojine’s company practices predation of the country’s resources.
Special envoy to Bangui (Central Africa)
Those who imagined the golden bulbs, dark ochres and bright blues of Moscow cathedrals will be disappointed. Saint-André de Bangui is more modest. The only church in the Central African Republic that has rallied to the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow resembles, like many others in Bangui, a large barn, with its facade of white boards and its tin roof, nestled behind brick shacks. More surprising is his link with distant Russia, a choice of Bishop Régis Saint-Clair Voyemawa, renamed Sergueï last year by Metropolitan Léonide de Klin. This former Catholic chose Orthodoxy regarding ten years ago. The pope has become, despite himself, the symbol of the Russian presence in the Central African Republic.
In the church, Russians from Bangui helped renovate the adjoining orphanage and donate the icons. On this rainy Sunday in August, a few faithful embrace them, with hesitant gestures. Under the porch, three young seminarians revise their…
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