The African Union's commissioner for peace and security has announced Sunday, December 29, 2013, that a contingent of Rwandan peacekeepers will be deploy to the Central African Republic, where nine other peacekeepers have been killed in less than a month.
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Monday, December 30, 2013 11:14 AM

Reports say dozens of people have been killed, including six peacekeepers from Chad, in the latest violence in the Central African Republic. Two more African Union peacekeepers were killed overnight in the Central African Republic, officials said Friday, raising to 11 the number of international peacekeepers killed in less than a month.
Saturday, December 28, 2013 11:36 AM

Heavy arms fire triggered panic Wednesday, December 25, 2013, in the Central African capital Bangui, prompting a French force to deploy armoured vehicles near the airport. Six Chadian peacekeepers have died in clashes in the Central African Republic capital.
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Friday, December 27, 2013 10:01 AM

The first Moroccan soldiers for the UN mission in Central African Republic (CAR) are ready to be deployed in the country according to a statement from the BINUCA (United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic).
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013 02:21 PM

Poland has agreed to send 50 troops to offer logistics and technical aid to France's operation in the Central African Republic (CAR), media reports say. Belgium has also agreed to send 150 soldiers, but Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo told reporters that today the country was only sending two transport planes and “for the moment, there is nothing else.”
Saturday, December 21, 2013 06:33 AM

The United States Defense Department sent another Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport jet from Burundi to the Central African Republic today in support of the African Union-led International Support Mission in that beleaguered nation, Army Col. Steve Warren, a Defense Department spokesman, told reporters here.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:45 AM

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 that Poland will provide aid with one military transport aircraft to support Sangaris operation of French Army in Central African Republic, without explicitly pledging to send troops.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013 09:31 AM

Spain authorized the participation of the Spanish Air Force with T-10 military transport aircraft (Code name in Spain for C-130) to support the military operation Sangaris of the French Army in Central African Republic (CAR). France is seeking more help from European nations for its effort to restore security in the Central African Republic.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013 08:42 AM

Belgian Ministry of Defense has announced that it would provide air support with C-130 transport aircraft to the French army for the military operation Sangaris in Central African Republic (CAR). Poland, Britain, Germany, Spain and Belgium are already helping with logistics, he said, and two countries are "currently considering" sending troops to back up the 1,600 soldiers there.
Monday, December 16, 2013 10:45 AM

Burundian National Defense Forces (BNDF) and the U.S. Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Africa 13 worked together Dec. 10 as the African partners prepared to embark to the Central Africa Republic as part of the African Union mission.
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Sunday, December 15, 2013 01:03 PM

The British RAF (Royal Air Force) has successfully delivered a second tranche of French military equipment to peacekeepers attempting to quell the bloodletting in the Central African Republic. A C-17 transport aircraft yesterday (Wed) delivered trucks and supplies to the airport at Bangui, the capital of the troubled state where a descent into sectarian violence has prompted the UN to sanction international intervention.
Friday, December 13, 2013 09:25 AM

The U.S. military expects Thursday, December 12, 2013, to begin flying Burundi forces into the Central African Republic to help stop the violence in that war-torn country, according to a U.S. military official. The United States has two C-17 military transport aircraft in Uganda that will pick up the forces in Burundi and unload them in Bangui, the capital.
Thursday, December 12, 2013 09:25 AM

Two French soldiers were killed in overnight fighting during Sangaris operation in the Central African Republic, France's first casualties in an operation to restore stability in its former colony. France reported that gunmen killed two of its soldiers who were part of the intervention to disarm thousands of rebels accused of attacking civilians.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:00 AM

French soldiers from the Sangaris operation in Central African Republic are deployed with the FOMAC (Central African Multinational Force) forces in the city of Bangui to restore the security and protect the population. French troops have exchanged fire with former rebels in the Central African Republic's capital Bangui as they sought to disarm fighters following violence in which hundreds have been killed.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11:23 AM

Around 1,600 French soldiers are now deployed in the Central African Republic for the Sangaris operation, the army confirmed on Sunday, December 8, 2013, adding that no fresh clashes had occurred since Thursday. General staff spokesman Colonel Gilles Jaron said the troops were on the ground, with most in the capital Bangui and a few units deployed elsewhere.
Monday, December 9, 2013 10:41 AM

French Defense Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, told the BBC's Christian Fraser about the military operation Sangaris by French army in Central African Republic.
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Sunday, December 8, 2013, 01:26 PM

French contingent in the CAR (Central African Republic), its former colony, had reached its full strength of 1,200 troops on Saturday, December 7, 2013, and was deployed to the north and west of the country to secure main roads and towns outside the capital, military officials said.
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Sunday, December 8, 2013, 10:54 AM

After a decision takes by the French President François Hollande, the military operation named “Sangaris” was launched during night of December 6, 2013 in the Central African Republic (CAR). The goal of this operation is to restore the security and humanitarian situation in CAR and to help the MISCA (UN mission in the Central African Republic) in the country.
Saturday, December 7, 2013, 11:55 AM