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CAR ex-leader heads for exile in Benin
Michel Djotodia, who seized power backed by rebels last March, resigned under pressure from regional leaders.
Last updated: 11 Jan 2014 20:25
The Central African Republic's former President Michel Djotodia has travelled to Benin where he will go into exile, a day after he resigned under pressure from regional leaders.
An AFP reporter at Cotonou airport said Djotodia arrived on Saturday afternoon and was met by Benin's foreign minister, Nassirou Bako Arifari, who earlier confirmed that the ex-leader was headed there.
"Benin accepts to welcome him at the request of member states of the Economic Community of Central African States and it is our contribution to the search for peace in central Africa," Arifari told AFP.
Djotodia, a rebel leader from the country's north, seized power in March with the help of thousands of fighters.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/car-ex-leader-exile-benin-201411115450653357.html