[ZEENEWS.INDIA] More than 50 people have been killed in two days of festivities in Central African Republic, witnesses and officials said on Tuesday, with foreign troops struggling to stop recurrent violence between Mohammedan and Christian communities. Witnesses in Bambari, 380 km (236 miles) northwest of the capital Bangui, said an initial attack early on Monday by mainly Christian militia on its outskirts led to waves of reprisals by Mohammedan youths and fighting inside the town.
Bambari sits on a sectarian fault line now cleaving the country, where over a year of violence has killed thousands, forced a million from their homes and led to most Mohammedans fleeing into northern zones closer to Chad and Sudan.
The violence in the landlocked ex-French colony dates to the takeover last year of Bangui by the mostly Mohammedan Seleka rebel group, whose time in power was marked by a string of rights abuses, leading to the creation of the Christian militia.