UN to send peacekeepers after Central African Republic flare-up

At least 30 people, many of them civilians, died in clashes between Christian and Muslim militias this week

Anti-Balaka fighters show their weapons outside Bangui
(Image credit: Ivan Lieman/AFP/Getty Images)

THE United Nations has voted to send a 12,000-strong peacekeeping force to the Central African Republic after sectarian violence flared again this week.

At least 30 people died and 10 were wounded on Wednesday as fighters from the mainly Christian anti-Balaka militia attacked positions held by the predominantly Muslim Seleka rebels in the central town of Dekoa.

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