Tuesday, 4 February 2014

PHOTOS: Peacekeepers in the Central African Republic recapture a key town

A militiaman with the armed Christian movement known as the anti-Balaka stands in a looted house belonging to a Muslim man who fled the night before in Bangui, Central African Republic. Fighting between Muslim Seleka militias and anti-Balaka factions continues as French and African Union forces struggle to contain the bloodshed. More pics after cut...



French forces grab a man suspected of looting a mosque before chasing him away in the Miskin district of Bangui. 

A French soldier searches a man after confiscating a knife from him in Bangui. 

French forces push out looters in the Miskin district in Bangui. 

Issaka Hamidou, 16, sits on a hospital bed in Bangui as he recovers from wound caused by a stray bullet.

Muslim women and children stand in the Central African Republic town of Yaloke, north of the capital Bangui. About 200 rebel fighters, who surrendered to African Union troops who retook the key town of Sibut during the weekend, fled overnight, a representative of the military said. 

An aerial photograph shows homes destroyed by sectarian violence north of Bangui. 

Gen. Francisco Soriano, center, commander of the French forces in Central African Republic, greets a community leader in a largely Muslim neighborhood in the town of Yaloke.

A refugee holds a mattress while atop a plane in the airport camp in Bangui. More than 130,000 have taken refuge outside the airport, living in dismal conditions. 

French soldiers on patrol in an armored vehicle in Yaloke. 

Children pose for a photograph in Yaloke. 

Gen. Francisco Soriano, commander of the French forces in the country, talks to residents in a largely Muslim neighborhood of Yaloke. 

A French army helicopter flies over Sibut, a town peacekeepers said they retook from rebels over the weekend. 

Residents of Sibut, who had fled the town and found refuge in nearby forests, gather near a contingent of French army soldiers after the troops retook control of the entry to the town. 

Muslim militiamen stand in the streets of the Miskin district in Bangui. 

A man screams after being arrested by soldiers from Equatorial Guinea in downtown Bangui. The man was found with a grenade in his pocket.

Children run behind the car transporting Catherine Samba-Panza, Central African Republic’s interim president, after her visit to a refu­gee camp in Bangui. 

Catherine Samba-Panza, interim president of Central African Republic, visits a refugee camp in Bangui. (Jer

Source. The Washington Post

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