U.N. seeks funds for African force in Central African Republic


  • World
  • Friday, 31 Jan 2014

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The United Nations is asking donors for more money to fund African Union peacekeepers trying end inter-communal violence in the Central African Republic, a U.N. official said on Friday.

Almost a million people, a quarter of the population, have been displaced by fighting since the mostly Muslim Seleka rebel group seized power in March in the majority Christian country. At least 2,000 people are estimated to have been killed.

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