Reuters (Africa)
Monday, January 11, 2016 - 06:59
Hundreds of peacekeepers from Democratic Republic of Congo on a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic will withdraw, a spokesman said on Saturday, after they failed an internal assessment. The historically turbulent former French colony suffered an intensification of violence in 2013 when mostly Muslim rebels known as Seleka seized power in a coup.
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Mexico is limping back from a punishing recession while drug war killings continue to climb.
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The opposition fears he will use his window of opportunity before January to push through whatever he wants.