[3] In 2006, Presidential Guard ransacked Tiringoulou and the PG soldiers attempted to arrest him.

Due to this incident, aggravated by the state negligence in Vakaga, Damane and Sabone decided to rebel against the François Bozizé government by creating the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity armed group.

Bozizé appointed Damane as advisor of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) on 13 January 2011.

Later he became a general in Popular Front for the Rebirth of Central African Republic which formed from ex-Séléka.

In 2014 he created Patriotic Rally for the Renewal of the Central African Republic as a splinter group from FPRC.