{"id":12501,"date":"2014-02-13T01:22:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T01:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/central-african-republic-leader-declares-war-on\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T01:22:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T01:22:37","slug":"central-african-republic-leader-declares-war-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/central-african-republic-leader-declares-war-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Central AFrican Republic Leader ‘Declares War’ on Militia"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{The Central African Republic President Catherine Samba-Panza has said she will “go to war” with Christian militias who are slaughtering Muslims.}}<\/p>\n

She said the militias, called anti-balaka, had “lost their sense of mission” and had become “the ones who kill, who pillage, who are violent”.<\/p>\n

The militias claim to be taking revenge for atrocities by Muslims last year.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of Muslims have fled into Cameroon and Chad and many more are living in camps inside CAR.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International has described the situation as “ethnic cleansing”.<\/p>\n

But Ms Samba-Panza rejected that label and characterised the violence as a “security problem”.<\/p>\n

“They think that because I’m a woman, I’m weak. But now the anti-balaka who want to kill will themselves be hunted,” she said in a speech.<\/p>\n

Many of the Muslims who have fled were traders or involved in the food business.<\/p>\n

Their absence has sparked a collapse in food distribution and worsened a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

Witnesses say dozens of dusty stalls at one market in the capital Bangui stand empty.<\/p>\n

The only meat available is a small amount of pork from locally reared pigs.<\/p>\n

The UN’s World Food Programme has started a massive month-long airlift of food into CAR from Cameroon, with the first flight arriving on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A total of 1,800 tonnes of cereal will be delivered in the coming weeks, but the WFP says almost 10 times that amount will be needed.<\/p>\n

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