The Central African Republic holds presidential, legislative, regional and local elections on Sunday, capping a period of relative calm after years of instability and violence.
Deeply poor despite boasting mineral wealth, the central African country adopted bitcoin as legal tender despite the reservation of traditional banking institutions.
Here are five things to know about the country:
Stabilising after years of war
Since winning independence from France in 1960, the country has endured coups and authoritarian regimes and, from the beginning of the 2010s, civil war between the government
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