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Car Govt Shuns Seleka-Anti-Balaka Cease-Fire

29.01.2015 19:03

The transitional government of the Central African Republic (CAR) on Thursday refused to recognize a cease fire agreement signed earlier this week in Nairobi by the predominantly Muslim seleka militia and the predominantly Christian anti balaka militia.

The transitional government of the Central African Republic (CAR) on Thursday refused to recognize a cease-fire agreement signed earlier this week in Nairobi by the predominantly Muslim seleka militia and the predominantly Christian anti-balaka militia.



The agreement aims to end more than a year of hostility – which had often resulted in violence – between the two sides.



Interim President Catherine Samba Panza, for her part, said her government was not involved in the agreement.



"I was only informed later about the talks between the two militias," Samba Panza told The Anadolu Agency.



Sources close to the two rival militias, meanwhile, said Denis Sassou Nguesso, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, had been in Nairobi in recent days to attend the cease-fire talks.



Negotiations between the two militias began late last month and wrapped up on Tuesday.



Both sides agreed to suspend hostilities, disarm and reintegrate. They also agreed on the need for a general amnesty for whoever participated in sectarian violence that broke out in 2013, an informed source said.



The source, who requested anonymity, added that the amnesty should absolve the country's former presidents, including Francois Bozize and Michel Djotodia, along with a number of their associates, of war crimes charges.



The source said the cease-fire would hinder CAR's parliamentary polls, scheduled to be held later this year, adding that the country's failure to hold elections would only lead to more instability.



A cease-fire agreement was signed by the two militias last July in Brazzaville, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, under Nguesso's meditation.



CAR descended into anarchy in 2013 when seleka rebels ousted Bozize, a Christian who had come to power in a 2003 coup. The rebels later installed Michel Djotodia, a Muslim, as interim president.



Djotodia stepped down last year, however, to be replaced by a Christian leader amid a wave of sectarian violence.



Since then, the country has been plagued by tit-for-tat violence between predominantly Christian anti-balaka militiamen and predominantly Muslim seleka fighters.



The 12,000-troop UN mission in CAR (MINUSCA) began deploying in the troubled country last year under a mandate from the UN Security Council.



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