France, Congo Send Troops to CAR as Amnesty Urges UN Deployment
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France and the Congo Republic deployed soldiers in the Central African Republic before a United Nations Security Council meeting that will decide on how to stabilize the country eight months after a coup.
Five hundred Congolese troops arrived in the capital, Bangui, yesterday, bringing to 2,800 the number of African Union-led peacekeeping forces that have been deployed, Jean-Felix Akaga, head of the Multinational Force for Central Africa, known as Fomac, said in a phone interview. A day earlier, France sent 200 communications and logistics personnel, Colonel Eugene Depig, a military official at the French Embassy, said today.