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The Head Heeb: French troops in the CAR |
 | | For the past six months, a renewed insurgency in the northern Central African Republic has devastated three prefectures, driven 90,000 refugees and IDPs into the bush or southeastern Chad, and defied the efforts of the national army and regional peacekeepers. |
 | | The rebellion, which began in the perennially turbulent Ouham and Ouham-Pendé prefectures, has also spread increasingly to Vakaga district on the border with Sudan, with a pitched battle on June 29 claiming the lives of 20 rebels and 13 soldiers. |
 | | In addition, if the French fulfill the CAR defense ministry's wish to "push the armed groups operating in the prefecture of Vakaga out of the national territory," the most likely place for those groups to go is Darfur, which means that renegade rebels-turned-bandits will be added to that region's problems. |
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