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| | Central African Republic: Elections |
 | | Over 200 international observers are being fielded to monitor the elections, and MINURCA troops have been deployed to nine designated electoral monitoring sites at Berberati, Kagabandoro, Bangassou, Bossangoa, Bozoum, Bouar, Bambari, Nedel and Birao. |
 | | The planned deployment of observers and troops at another designated monitoring site, Mobaye, had not yet taken place due to insecurity resulting from the recent influx of thousands of soldiers to that area from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). |
 | | The mutinies, essentially triggered by salary arrears and public discontent over social and economic problems, killed hundreds of people, displaced tens of thousands and resulted in widespread looting and destruction of small enterprises and factories in the capital. |
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