France sees U.N. backing to boost CAR force next week


  • World
  • Tuesday, 26 Nov 2013

PARIS (Reuters) - France expects to get U.N. backing next week to increase its troop numbers in the Central African Republic, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday, warning violence risked spreading in the region.

The landlocked nation of 4.6 million people has descended into violence and chaos since Seleka rebels, many of them from neighbouring Chad and Sudan, ousted President Francois Bozize in March.

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