CAR / TOUADERA INAUGURATION
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STORY: CAR / TOUADERA INAUGURATION
TRT: 01:16
SOURCE: MINUSCA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 MARCH 2016, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
1.Med shot, band playing at inauguration ceremony at the Bartholomew Bogand sports complex
2.Med shot, women dancing
3.Med shot, president elect Touadera with US ambassador Samantha Power in the background
4.Wide shot, Touadera waiting to be sworn in
5.Med shot, Touadera waiting to be sworn in
6.Close up, tripods
7.Wide shot, Touadera taking the oath
8.Med shot, Touadera taking the oath
9.Wide shot, people in stadium cheering
10.Med shot, MINUSCA SRSG Parfait Onanga-Anyanga and Deputy SRSG Diane Corner
11.Med shot, Touadera taking CAR flag from officer, Power smiling in background
12.SOUNDBITE (French) Herve Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“Today, the situation -that we have long waited for three years- is a decisive and well-deserved phase to definitely put the Central African Republic in the road of progress, development and reconciliation.”
13.Med shot, UN tank
14.Various shots, police checking people as they enter stadium
15.Med shot, UN peacekeeper
16. Wide shot, UN tank and peacekeeper
Professor Faustin-Archange Touadera assumed Wednesday (30 Mar) the leadership of the Central African Republic.
Touadera, a former mathematics teacher and former rector of the University of Bangui, was sworn in at the Bartholomew Bogand sports complex in Bangui.
The ceremony included the national anthem sung by the audience and a military parade.
The new president emerged from a long list of candidates and won the February 14 runoff with nearly 63 percent of the vote.
Three years of sectarian violence between Muslim Seleka and Christian anti-Balaka militias and a transitional government has left thousands dead.
In an interview after the inauguration, the head of the UN Peacekeeping operations Herve Ladsous said, “today, the situation -that we have long waited for three years- is a decisive and well-deserved phase to definitely put the Central African Republic in the road of progress, development and reconciliation.”
The country's economy grew by 4.9 percent last year, the biggest growth in 16 years, as it began to emerge from years of conflict. In 2013 it had contracted by 37 percent.
CAR, a former French colony, suffered the worst crisis in its history in early 2013 when mainly Muslim Seleka fighters toppled president Francois Bozize.Christian militias responded to Seleka abuses by attacking the Muslim minority.
A fifth of the population fled their homes to escape the violence.