The U.N. secretary-general is asking for more than 1,000 additional peacekeepers for the Central African Republic to help bring violence between Christians and Muslims under control outside the capital of the Texas-sized country.
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The sectarian violence that erupted in 2012 in Central African Republic has killed at least 5,000 and forced tens of thousands, mostly Muslims, to flee.
Representatives of the country’s two warring factions signed an unconditional cease-fire in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, their mediator said Thursday, but there was no representative of President Catherine Samba-Panza’s government.
Previous cease-fires agreed to by various alleged representatives of the two sides have quickly fallen apart.