Ali Darassa

Ali Darassa Mahamat (born 23 July 1965), also known as Ali Nassaraza Darassa, Ali Daras, and Ali Ndarass is a Nigerian leader of the Central African rebel group, the Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (UPC), which is dominant around Bambari.[1] He is an ethnic Fula[2] and his UPC is largely Fula. Darassa was the right-hand man of Chadian rebel leader, Abdel Kader Baba-Laddé until Baba-Laddé abandoned his armed struggle in September 2012.[3] The UPC is an Ex-Séléka faction made up of disbanded members of the former rebel coalition known as Séléka. Starting in November 2016, another Ex-Séléka faction, the FPRC, allied with their former enemy, the Anti-balaka, and attacked UPC.[4][5] The fighting displaced 20,000 and was ethnic in nature with the FPRC singling out Fulani people.[6][5] He is reportedly well studied in past UN peacekeeping missions in order to deal with the peacekeeping mission known as MINUSCA in the country.[7]

Ali Darassa Mahamat
Born (1965-07-23) July 23, 1965
Nigeria
NationalityNigerian
Military career
AllegianceUnion for Peace in the Central African Republic
Years of service2014-present

See also

References
  1. "One day we will start a big war". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  2. In French: Peul. In Fula: Pullo (pl. Fulɓe).
  3. "Blog of the storytellers" (in French). tribautribarblogspot. 27 October 2015.
  4. "Central African Republic: Executions by rebel group". Human Rights Watch. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  5. "U.N. 'KILLS REBEL COMMANDER' IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AIRSTRIKES". Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  6. "U.N. air strikes in Central African Republic kill several: militia". Reuters. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  7. "Peacekeeping, African warlords and Donald Trump". BBC news. Retrieved 25 February 2017.


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