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Published on Nov 21, 2013
5:11 PM
PARIS (AFP) - France warned on Thursday that the Central African Republic was "on the verge of genocide", as the UN considers sending thousands of peacekeepers to the strife-torn country.
"It's total disorder," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told France 2 television, adding that the United Nations was considering authorising African and French troops to intervene.
"You have seven surgeons for a population of five million, an infant mortality rate of 25 per cent in some areas and 1.5 million people who have nothing, not even food, and armed gangs, bandits," he said.
Mr Fabius underscored the need to act fast. President Francois Hollande has also denounced the abuses committed in the mineral-rich but deeply impoverished former French colony in equatorial Africa. Mr Fabius said, France, the Central African Republic's neighbours and the international community were deeply concerned by the unrest.
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