Ahmat, Habib Adam2019-11-152019-11-1520192019https://hdl.handle.net/11467/3118The Central African Republic is an extremely impoverished country that has seen little development since its independence from France in 1960. It is ranked 180 out of 186 countries on the U.N. Human Development Index (report 2016) and is in the Fund for Peace’s top 10 failed states, next to Haiti and Afghanistan. The latest surge of violence in the country began when the Seleka rebels captured power in March 2013. They were responsible for mass killings, sexual violence, and looting. this study critically analyses the factors that led to the conflict and the role that played by the foreign actors in this conflict. Thus, there are four elements that caused the conflict in the C.A. R including exclusion, repression, competition over resources and foreign involvement. this study emphesize on the repression combined with exclusion policies adopted by the Bozize and the precedent regimes as a trigiring factor to the outbreak of violence in CAR. However,the mot important reason is the economic factor which is the struggle for power and resources among political elites and rebels groups.Because the empirical evidence showed that there was a deep economic crisis behind the conflict caused by the withdrawal of foreign investors from the country and the deterioration of the Commercial crops such as cotton, coffee as well as the deterioration of the as well as the decline of the exploitation of forest income.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEthno-Political ConflictCompetition Over ResourcesSelekaAnti-BalakaFrancois BozizeMichel DjotodiaAnimation