French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries.... : Union Démocratique Centrafricaine), was a political party
Political party
A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns.... in the Central African Republic
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the east, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west.... . UDC was installed by David Dacko
David Dacko
David Dacko was the first President of the Central African Republic , from August 14, 1960 to January 1, 1966, and the third president of the CAR from September 21, 1979 to September 1, 1981.... in 1980 at a congress in March that year. Dacko claimed that UDC was the continuation of MESAN
MESAN
The Mouvement pour l'?volution sociale de l'Afrique noire was a nationalism quasi-religious political party that sought to affirm black humanity and advocated for the independence of Oubangui-Chari, then a France French colonial empires.... .
Source: O'Toole, Thomas. The Central African Republic: The Continent's Hidden Heart. Boulder: Westview Press, 1986.