France to Increase Troop Presence in CAR

France will send an extra 800 troops to the Central African Republic in a bid to bolster security in the wartorn nation, Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye said. Paris said last week that the central African nation was "on the verge of genocide". France will triple the number of French troops in the troubled Central African Republic, the wartorn nation’s Prime Minister said after meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Paris.
Troop deployment was expected to begin in December, after the United Nations Security Council votes to mandate international intervention in the country. On Monday UN leader Ban Ki-Moon called up for up to 6,000 more international troops to be sent to the Central African Republic. French troops will join a regional peacekeeping force, the African Union-mandated International Support Mission in the Central African Republic (MISCA). The bulk of MISCA, which should total some 3,600 men at full strength, is provided by Chad, with troops from Gabon, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea.

Source: BNA