IN recent months, Central African politicians and journalists have shared images of the military posing in front of different town signs – seemingly as proof of the state regaining control over a country caught up in civil war for almost a decade. TIM GLAWION, Research Fellow, German Institute of Global and Area Studies The civil war commenced when rebel groups in the country’s northeast formed a coalition in 2012 to topple President François Bozizé. Their declared interest was the defence of a marginalised population’s demands for development. However, the more likely trigger for the rebellion was Bozizé’s attempt to take…