中非共和國雖因敵對武裝派系掀起血腥種族與宗教衝突，受到聯合國實施武器禁運，而禁運令最近才剛延長到201802月。但莫斯科(Moscow)當局在與聯合國進行冗長協商後，成功取得豁免，並於2017年12月中輸入大量武器到中非共和國，包括手槍、突擊步槍、機關槍，甚至是火箭發射器。聯合國也同意俄國，可以訓練整頓中的「中非武裝部隊」(FACA)兩個營約1,300人。

Around 180 Russian military instructors are said to be settled with weapons since last December in the Central African Republic CAR. Moscow wants to equip two battalions of CAR army totaling 1 300

men after being given a go ahead by the UN when the CAR’s leaders asked it to provide weapons for units being formed by the EU.

Why Does Russia Want To Sell Arms To The Central African Republic?Russia’s “military diplomacy” in the war-torn Central African Republic is designed to stabilize part of Africa’s “Failed State Belt” and set the stage for Moscow to eventually move its peacemaking efforts to the continent’s next cauldron of chaos in the neighboring Congo, all with the intent of reasserting its historic Great Power role in Africa and providing more strategic value to its relationship with China.  

Some unexpected news surfaced earlier this week when it was revealed that Russia requested the UN to make an exception to its arms embargo on the Central African Republic so that Moscow could send weapons to two EU-trained battalions of its military by the beginning of next week. Even more surprisingly, the Western members of the UNSC reacted positively to this idea, though they asked that the measure be temporarily put on hold until they receive more details about how Russia plans to prevent these arms from inadvertently falling into the hands of the country’s rebel groups. They already seem satisfied to find out that Russia plans to store them in new containers under tight security, but they’d like to know the serial numbers for each unit so that they can be traced in the event that they end up in the wrong hands.

俄國計畫是為了強化中非共和國虛弱的軍隊，這個國家有大片領土被武裝團體控制。不過，這場行動也將明顯提升俄國在這個戰略地位重要國的影響力，該國蘊藏的寶藏包括鑽石、黃金、鈾與林木。看起來俄羅斯是醉翁之意不在酒而是上述的戰略物資.

 The Central African Republic (CAR; Sango: Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka; French: République centrafricaine  pronounced [ʁepyblik sɑ̃tʁafʁikɛn], or Centrafrique [sɑ̃tʁafʁik]) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest and Cameroon to the west. The CAR covers a land area of about 620,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi) and had an estimated population of around 4.6 million as of 2016^[update].

中非共和國（法語：République centrafricaine；桑戈語：Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka）是一位於中部非洲的國家，其前身為法屬烏班基-夏利領地（Territoire d'Oubangui-Chari），是法國位於非洲的殖民地之一。

中非成立於1958年12月，初期為半自治的政府型態，並且在1960年8月13日正式宣布獨立。首都班基（Bangui，或譯班吉）是一位於烏班基河（Oubangui）沿岸的邊境城市。

法國是中非的最大援助國，1997年以前每年向中非提供援助達6000～9000萬美元.但是好景不長法國自從2014年起就縮減援助為3000萬美元因為海外駐軍開銷甚巨.再加上各路叛軍遊擊隊,長期割據山頭自立為王的戰事不斷,騷擾法國軍隊及聯合國維和部隊,因此法國以撤出1/2兵力.據聞法國曾經要求中國派遣維和部隊,進駐中非共和國,協助法國分擔重任,但是至今中國尚未回應出兵與否.

Russian Arms In Central Africa

Some unexpected news surfaced earlier this week when it was revealed that Russia requested the UN to make an exception to its arms embargo on the Central African Republic so that Moscow could send weapons to two EU-trained battalions of its military by the beginning of next week. Even more surprisingly, the Western members of the UNSC reacted positively to this idea, though they asked that the measure be temporarily put on hold until they receive more details about how Russia plans to prevent these arms from inadvertently falling into the hands of the country’s rebel groups. They already seem satisfied to find out that Russia plans to store them in new containers under tight security, but they’d like to know the serial numbers for each unit so that they can be traced in the event that they end up in the wrong hands.

Russia’s African Return

Most readers probably missed the recent news, but Russia is seriously deliberating Sudan’s offer to provide it with a naval base on the country’s Red Sea coast, which could allow Moscow to maintain a strategic presence at the northern mainland-maritime interface of one of China’s African Silk Roads, the Sahelian-Saharan Silk Road. This still doesn’t explain the value that Russia believes that it could provide to China via its prospective “military diplomacy” in the Central African Republic, as this landlocked state doesn’t sit astride the previously mentioned route, but it could have, though, and that’s the point. In the introductory chapters of the author’s book-length analytical series on African geopolitics, it was mentioned that one of China’s greatest goals is to link Africa’s most populous state of Nigeria with its second-largest one of Ethiopia via an overland route, which could in the future be fulfilled via the Sahelian-Saharan Silk Road but at one time could have more profitably gone through resource-rich South Sudan and the Central African Republic instead as opposed to the barren desert.