Ali Darassa Mahamat (born 23 July 1965), also known as Ali Nassaraza Darassa, Ali Daras, and Ali Ndarass is Nigerian leader of the Central African rebel group, the Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (UPC), which is dominant around Bambari.[1] He is an ethnic Fula[2] and his UPC is largely Fula. Darassa was the right-hand man of Chadian rebel leader, Abdel Kader Baba-Laddé until Baba-Laddé abandoned his armed struggle in September 2012.[3] The UPC is an Ex-seleka faction made up of disbanded members of the former rebel coalition known as Seleka. Starting in November 2016, another Ex-seleka faction, the FPRC, allied with their former enemy, the Anti-balaka, and attacked UPC.[4][5] The fighting displaced 20,000 and was ethnic in nature with the FPRC singling out Fulani people.[6][5] He is reportedly well studied in past UN peacekeeping missions in order to deal with the peacekeeping mission known as MINUSCA in the country.[7]