Court weighs bid to disqualify CAR president Touadéra from election

A constitutional court in the Central African Republic began examining on Wednesday a request to disqualify the head of state from the presidential election scheduled for next December.

The petition, filed by the Observatory for Democratic Governance , a civil society organization, argues that President Faustin Archange Touadéra should be disqualified on the grounds that he does not meet the criteria required to run for…