CAR Faces Fresh Challenge as Seleka Regroups

The international community and the media has focused primarily on violence perpetrated by the anti-Balaka, warnings of genocide, the politics surrounding the evacuation of Muslims to safety, and the delay in the deployment of peacekeepers. Meanwhile, the former Seleka fighters have regrouped, both politically and militarily.- and the nature of violence in the Central African also appears to have changed, writes Hanna Ucko Neill for African Arguments.
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    African Arguments, 28 May 2014

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Machetes are confiscated by FOMAC (Multinational Force of Central Africa) troops as those displaced by the fighting between anti-Balaka and Seleka forces enter the FOMAC compound for safety (file photo).

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