Although this issue was authorized by the Central African Republic postal administration, the vast majority and in most cases ALL of the issue was not sold in Central Africa, but only distributed by the Central African philatelic agency Stamperija for distribution onto the philatelic market.
There is Nº evidence of postal use in the CAR for these.
100th birthday of Nelson Mandela. Pan-African Postal Union (PAPU) joint issue by Algeria, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Djibouti , Gambia, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Niger, Sierra Leone , South Africa, Togo, Tunisia.
Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea have also been reported as having issued stamps within this issue, but nothing has been seen so far.
