Last modified: 2003-04-19 by zeljko heimer
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![[Central African Republic, 1976]](../images/c/cf_76.gif)
![[National flag]](../misc/oooxxx.gif){kind=small}
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by Zeljko Heimer 15 April 2003
Description from image at Petr Exner's
Czech vexillological pages:
green field, yellow crescent and star in lower fly, yellow over white canton.
Olivier Touzeau, 13 February 2003
In summer 1976, during a visit to the country by president Ghadafi of Libya,
the Central African president Jean Bedel Bokassa converted to Islam adopting the name of
Salah el Din Ahmed. At the time a project was undertaken to devise a new national flag, probably
arising from inner government circles to please Ghadafi. Even some media
reported it as
definitively adopted, but it seems that after obtaining some economic help from Ghadafi,
the new flag project stopped, and some months later the republic was transformed
into the Empire (December 1976) and the old flag confirmed.
Jaume Ollé, 13 February 2003