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In the Central African Republic, rebel groups have been supplying months battles. Now France is sending 1,000 soldiers in the conflict region. The UN wants to send troops, but still awaiting a decision of the Security Council.

France wants to send about 1,000 additional soldiers in the controlled chaos and violence Central African Republic. The goal is a short-term support of peacekeepers from African States, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced in Paris on Tuesday. The soldiers would come for around six months to those 450 French soldiers who are already in the country.

You should support an American military unit while to calm the situation after the coup by rebels in the spring.
So far, one of the African Union Mission is (Misca) with about 2,500 soldiers in the field. In the medium to increase to 3600 their number. The UN also plans the deployment of 6,000 peacekeepers. But that so far lacks a mandate from the UN Security Council.

The Central African Republic is one of the poorest countries on earth. She was last slipped again into chaos after the rebel alliance SELEKA (“Alliance”) overthrew President François Bozizé in March.

The new Head of State Michel Djotodia sparked SELEKA later on , but numerous rebel groups are due to the weak domestic forces still active in the country . Especially in remote regions violence continues , since the beginning of November but it has increased again in the capital Bangui.

Given the political and humanitarian crisis in France had warned last week against the danger of genocide. There conquer ” absolute chaos ” with numerous armed gangs , there are far too few doctors , the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius had said . The child mortality is sometimes extremely high, and one and a half million people have nothing to eat.

Because of the ongoing violence , tens of thousands of people held in the bush of the country tucked away where the living conditions were devastating, the Red Cross had reported on Monday . The displaced are particularly exposed to malaria and other diseases caused by unclean water . “The authorities have a duty to restore public order ,” said the head of the Red Cross organization in the crisis country , Georgios Georgantas . In many parts of central Africa , the health system had completely collapsed , he added.

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