{{Central African Republic’s new President Michel Djotodia, who seized power last week, said he would review resource deals signed by the previous government and promised to step down at elections in 2016.}}
“I will ask the relevant ministers to see whether things were done badly, to try to sort them out,” Djotodia said, when asked about resource licences awarded to Chinese and South African firms.
Djotodia, a former civil servant turned rebel leader, said on Friday he would seek aid from former colonial power France and the United States to retrain the ill-disciplined army, which was easily overrun by fighters from his Seleka rebel coalition.
Paris and Washington have called for the rebels to adhere to a power-sharing deal signed in the Gabonese capital Libreville in January which mapped out a transition to elections in 2016 at which then-President Francois Bozize was forbidden from running.
“We are going to act according to the spirit of the Libreville agreements,” Djotodia told his first news conference since seizing power.
“Anyone currently in power supporting our takeover will not contest the next presidential elections, myself included.”
The rebel takeover has been strongly condemned internationally.
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