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| Africa Subsaharan |
| C Africa's Selekas, anti-Balakas sign ceasefire |
| 2014-07-24 |
| [Iran Press TV] Representatives of the mostly Moslem Seleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... group in the Central African Republic (CAR) have signed a ceasefire with anti-Balaka Christian snuffies to end months of violence. The pact was signed on Wednesday in Brazzaville, the capital of the neighboring Republic of Congo. "We will be signing the cessation of hostilities agreement this afternoon," said Colonel Youssouf Ben Moussa, a senior Seleka official, ahead of signing the truce. "Our demand for the partition of the country has been dropped. That demand is obsolete now: What we have agreed to is the sharing of power." The deal came after heavy pressure from regional mediators. It is not clear if the ceasefire will be respected by all the warring sides in the African country. The African country descended into chaos last December, when Christian gangs launched coordinated attacks against the Seleka group that toppled the government in March 2013. On December 5, La Belle France invaded its former colony after the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Security Council adopted a resolution giving the 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... and La Belle France the go-ahead to send troops to the country. In March 2014, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said almost all of more than 100,000 Moslems once residing in the capital Bangui had fled the violence perpetrated by Christian militiamen. |
| Posted by:Fred |