Peacekeepers Escort 1,300 Bangui Residents Who Had Been Besieged by Christians

muslimsfleeCentral African Republic—Some 1,300 of the last remaining Muslims in this capital city left on Sunday, escorted by African peacekeepers through a gauntlet of jeering Christians after months trapped in a squalid camp surrounded by lynch mobs. Their departure was a stark illustration of a country effectively cleaved along religious lines. MORE