A woman looks at burning houses in Bossangoa, north of the Central African Republic capital of Bangui. Clashes between Muslims and Christians in the capital killed at least three people Wednesday, as angry residents threw grenades and torched homes, witnesses said.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, at center in white shirt, speaks to a wounded soldier in a medical tent as he visits Operation Sangaris forces in Bangui. France has 1,600 soldiers deployed in its former colony, but French and African Union troops have struggled to contain the deadly sectarian violence that has been dividing the capital and driving hundreds of thousands to seek refuge in makeshift camps. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
Lores Philippi, a doctor, cleans and re-bandages St-Clair Mbatta’s machete wounds at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in a camp for displaced people at Mpoko Airport in Bangui. Mbatta fled to the camp Wednesday, after a group of men attacked him. Doctors Without Borders temporarily suspended all but emergency care at the clinic Thursday and closed other health posts within the camp, after two days of close-by fighting sent stray bullets into the camp. The airport camp houses an estimated 100,000 people in cramped and squalid conditions. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
A woman, displaced because of the violence, rests beside her child on her hospital bed in Bossangoa. (Andreea Campeanu / Reuters)
A French soldier takes a machete from a resident in Bossangoa. (Andreea Campeanu / Reuters)
A young man carries makeshift weapons as he returns to his neighborhood to fetch household goods in Bangui. He is staying at the camp for displaced people at the capital city’s Mpoko Airport. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
Boys race homemade toy cars, crafted from sardine tins and bits of wood, in a street in Bangui. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
A French soldier checks for arms in a car carrying a Muslim man suffering from a bullet wound to the leg in Bangui. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
A young man jogs carrying his grandmother, who was too frail to stand, as he fetched her from an area with daily fighting to take her to a makeshift camp for displaced people at Mpoko Airport in Bangui. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
A young resident carries a machete as other residents, returning from the makeshift camp at Mpoko Airport, loot a damaged house in the Garaba neighborhood of Bangui. Several homes belonging to Christians were burned, and multiple Muslim homes were looted. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
A neighborhood resident returning from the makeshift camp at Mpoko Airport to fetch household goods surveys the remains of a burned home said to belong to a Christian family in Bangui. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
A boy carries items salvaged from looted houses in Bangui’s Garaba neighborhood. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
Wounded people rest at a hospital at Mpoko Airport. One person died and 15 others were injured Wednesday in heavy fighting close to Bangui's airport. (Miguel Medina / AFP/Getty Images)
A man tries to pull back Muslim men armed with machetes as they shout threats at a group of similarly armed Christians, who were deliberately provoking them by destroying property belonging to a Muslim shopkeeper, in Bangui. Burundian peacekeepers intervened to keep the two sides apart and calm tensions. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
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