CAR's Seleka, Anti-Balaka Fighters Clash

Several people are reported killed in the fighting of Saturday in Kaga-Bandoro in the centre of the country.

The forces of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission  in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) are yet to secure peace and order in Kaga-Bandoro in the centre of the country where tension remains high following clashes between fighters of the rival anti-Balaka and Seleka rebel groups in the area on September 16 to 17, 2016.

RFI citing humanitarian and international sources, talked of between two to ten killed in the fighting. The local media organ, Radio Ndeke Luka reported that Seleka forces killed 19 people at Ndometa at PK 10 of Kaga-Bandoro and five others in the centre of the town. Seleka forces equally looted the Kaga-Bandoro Saint of Nativity Parish, a local radio station and business premises. Faced with the precarious situation, international forces have been gathering staff of UN agencies in order to repatraite them to the capital, Bangui.

The MINUSCA spokesperson, Vladimir Monteiro, RFI cited said Seleka and anti-Balaka forces clashed and the international forces merely intervened to curb the fighting from s...