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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