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muriel_volestrangler

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1. Central African Republic is serious threat to region - UN

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Thu Aug 15, 2013, 06:25 AM

Aug 2013

There has been "a total breakdown in law and order" the Council said.

Aid agency Save the Children on Tuesday warned that more than 100,000 children faced sexual abuse and recruitment into armed groups in the country.

CAR has gold and diamond deposits but has been unstable since independence.

Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has taken advantage of years of unrest in CAR to set up bases in the country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23708790

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