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Bangui, Central African Republic

Looting follows coup: Thousands of rebel fighters, many of them children, entered the Central African Republic capital this week, easily overpowering a small South African force that was there to defend President François Bozizé. The president, who took over in a 2003 coup, fled to Cameroon. Rebel leader Michel Djotodia proclaimed himself president and asked international troops to help him restore order as looters, some of them his troops, pillaged the capital. Djotodia, whose forces have been fighting in the troubled country for years, said Bozizé had reneged on an earlier peace deal that promised jobs to his fighters.

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