Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide issued a statement on Sunday saying he was ”well looked after” by his hosts and would personally address reporters at an unspecified ”opportune time”. When reporters asked Mildred Aristide if her husband was healthy, she nodded. Asked if the couple were prisoners, she sighed.
The Cabinet in the Central African Republic (CAR) went into talks on Friday, reportedly to discuss what to do with their difficult guest, ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and took steps to keep him quiet. All journalists with questions relating to Aristide must now first address themselves to the CAR authorities.
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/ 11 December 2003
Interim Prime Minister Abel Goumba of the Central African Republic was sacked on Thursday, government spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Parfait M’Baye announced on state radio. General Francois Bozize named Goumba, a veteran opposition leader, prime minister a week after seizing power in a coup in March.