[4] The UPC is an Ex-Séléka faction made up of disbanded members of the former rebel coalition known as Séléka.

Starting in November 2016, another Ex-Séléka faction, the FPRC, allied with their former enemy, the Anti-balaka, and attacked UPC.

[5][6] The fighting displaced 20,000 and was ethnic in nature with the FPRC singling out Fulani people.

[8] On 17 December 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said in a statement that it was seizing all of Ali Darassa's US assets, and criminalizing transactions with him "for serious human rights abuses", stemming from his leadership of the UPC.

Darassa is condemned for his role in the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC).