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| C. African PM Names New Govt |
| 2014-01-28 |
| [An Nahar] Central Africa's prime minister on Monday appointed a new government to pull the deeply divided country out of crisis, incorporating both Christian militias and supporters of the mainly Mohammedan Seleka rebellion. Andre Nzapayeke's transitional government faces the daunting task of ending the bloodshed, restoring the operations of a state whose coffers are empty and whose employees have gone months without pay, and organizing general elections by February 2015. It comprises 20 ministers, seven of them women, and includes several members of the administration of former president Michel Djotodia. The prime minister, who was only appointed on Saturday, made the announcement as hundreds of former Seleka fighters left the capital Bangui under military escort after days of festivities between Christian and Mohammedan civilians. Violence between the Christian majority and Mohammedan minority first erupted after the Seleka rebels overthrew the government in March last year and installed its leader, Djotodia, as president. Djotodia failed to rein in a wave of killing, raping and looting by his former fighters, leading to the emergence of Christian vigilante groups known as "anti-balaka" (anti-machete) that are accused of committing atrocities of their own against Mohammedans, including civilian massacres. The violence has triggered international concern, and on Tuesday the U.N. Security Council is expected to adopt a resolution imposing sanctions against those responsible. The U.N. Security Council measure will target "individuals who harm peace and stability and hinder the process of political transition in the Central African Republic by fueling violence" and violating human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. , foreign ministry front man Romain Nadal said in Gay Paree. The draft resolution, sponsored by La Belle France, was announced after further festivities Sunday in the CAR capital, despite last week's election of interim President Catherine Samba Panza by the transitional parliament in the former French colony. Washington is also weighing "targeted" CAR sanctions against "those who further destabilize the situation or pursue their own selfish ends by abetting or encouraging the violence", U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... announced Sunday. In an effort to ease the tensions in the capital, African peacekeepers operating under a U.N. mandate on Monday evacuated hundreds of former Seleka from two camps in Bangui, among them senior rebel leaders. Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director for Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... , said one of the convoys carrying men from the Seleka coalition drove out of Bangui on Sunday with a large armed escort from MISCA, an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force of 5,200 men backed by 1,600 French troops. |
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