{"id":29836,"date":"2016-10-29T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/central-african-republic-clashes-leave-25-dead-un\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T07:16:44","slug":"central-african-republic-clashes-leave-25-dead-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/central-african-republic-clashes-leave-25-dead-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic: Clashes leave 25 dead – UN"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Twenty-five people have been killed in two days of violence in the Central African Republic, the UN peacekeeping mission has said.}<\/p>\n

On Thursday, 15 people died in clashes between Muslim fighters of the former Seleka militia and the Christian vigilante anti-Balaka group, it said.<\/p>\n

Six police officers and four civilians died in an ambush on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Central African Republic has been wracked by conflict along religious and ethnic lines since 2013.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Saturday, the Minusca mission said “clashes between elements of the anti-Balaka and ex-Seleka caused 15 deaths and a number of wounded” in the town of Bambari, about 250km (150 miles) north-east of the capital Bangui.<\/p>\n

It added that “six gendarmes and four civilians lost their lives on Friday morning in an ambush on the Bambari-Grimari road”.<\/p>\n

The UN mission urged all armed groups to end “the cycle of attack and reprisal”.
\nSeleka rebels briefly seized power in March 2013 and deposed the Christian President Francois Bozize.<\/p>\n

The Seleka group was itself then ousted, leading to a wave of violent reprisals against the Muslim population by the Christian anti-Balaka militia.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the CAR since 2013.<\/p>\n

More than 12,000 UN peacekeepers are deployed in the country.<\/p>\n

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