Fighting Intensifies In The Central African Republic

Central African Republic’s Bangui Out of Control, MSF Says -- Bloomberg Businessweek

Violence in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, is “out of control,” with fighting between Christians and Muslims resulting in lynchings and machete attacks, Medecins Sans Frontieres said.

Since early December teams working in several medical projects in Bangui have treated more than 1,000 victims of violence, the medical humanitarian organization founded in France in 1971 and known as MSF, said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.

“People are coming in with machete wounds to the head, hands and arms,” Laurent Sury, emergency coordinator of MSF in Bangui, said in the statement. “We’ve also seen people who have been stabbed, sometimes multiple times, in the abdomen, and people who have either been tortured or brutally beaten. For the most part, these are young men.”

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More News On The Growing Violence In The Central African Republic

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Uncontrolled violence in Central African Republic displaces thousands -- NBC/Reuters
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Central African Republic: UN warns children being mutilated amid ongoing turmoil -- UN News Centre
Children beheaded in Central African Republic -- PBS Newshour
UNICEF: Children Brutalized in CAR -- Voice of America
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Thousands block Central African Republic flights in plea for help -- Reuters
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