C. AFRICAN REPUBLIC MOBS LAUNCH ETHNIC ATTACKS
By KRISTA LARSON A French soldier screams at mobs of Christians attacking suspected Seleka members before firing warning shots near the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday Dec. 9,…
French armed forces
C. AFRICAN EX-REBELS AND FRENCH PATROL STREETS
Internally displaced people gather in the Don Bosco Center outside Bangui, Central African Republic, Saturday, Dec. 7 2013, fearing reprisal attacks from the Muslim ex-rebels who control Central African Republic.…
NEARLY 100 DEAD IN CAR BEFORE FRENCH TROOPS ARRIVE
By KRISTA LARSON Shrouded bodies lay in a mosque in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday Dec. 5 2013 following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. Over…
UN OKS MILITARY ACTION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
By EDITH M. LEDERER Christian children from the village of Bouebou, some 40 kms (30 miles) North of Bangui, Central African Republic, are packed in the trunk of a taxi…
France reinforces Mali troops after kidnap deaths
A coffin bearing the body of one of the two French radio journalists killed in Mali is carried at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy, north of Paris, Tuesday,…
FIGHTING FLARES BETWEEN MALI ARMY, REBELS IN KIDAL
By BABA AHMED FILE – In this July 27, 2013 file photo, Malian Tuareg soldiers loyal to Col. Major El-Hadj Gamou listen during a visit by Mali’s army chief of…
WHY IS FRANCE PUSHING SO HARD ON SYRIA?
By JAMEY KEATEN U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, walks with French President Francois Hollande, right, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, second left, and British Foreign Secretary William Hague,…
HOLLANDE DOESN’T RULE OUT SYRIA ‘MILITARY OPTION’
French President Francois Hollande, center, walks out of the lobby of the Elysee Palace as he waits for the arrival of Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal, Foreign Minister…