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Central African Republic: Back to War Again?

Abstract

Over the last week, armed skirmishes around the small city of Bossangoa in the northwest of the Central African Republic (CAR) led to the death of up to 100 people and the destruction of a number of properties. While incidents like this have been recurrent since a loose coalition of armed groups called Séléka ("alliance" in Sango, the national language) seized the capital Bangui in March 2013, this episode should convince external observers and the international community that the slow normalization, once considered the most likely scenario, is not happening. Instead, a further deterioration in the country's security is occurring, with a surge of highway banditry and predatory armed groups claiming different allegiances, and a narrative of an ongoing Christian-Muslim war that may have deleterious effects beyond the areas directly affected by fighting (...).
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hal-01025060 , version 1 (17-07-2014)

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Roland Marchal. Central African Republic: Back to War Again?. Global Observatory, 2013, pp.1-3. ⟨hal-01025060⟩
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