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In July 2014, ex-Séléka factions and Anti-balaka representatives signed a ceasefire agreement. [39] By the end of 2014, the country was de facto partitioned with the Anti-Balaka controlling the south and west, from which most Muslims had evacuated, and ex-Séléka groups controlling the north and east. [40]
On 9 May 2017 Anti-balaka attacked UPC forces in Alindao before withdrawing to Mingala. [26] On 13 May Anti-balaka attacked Bangassou killing more than 115 people including one peacekeeper. [27] On 18 May heavy clashes erupted between Anti-balaka and ex-Seleka in Bria resulting in 26 deaths. [28]
An internal conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) started essentially on 13 April 2013, when the government of President Michel Djotodia officially took over. The fighting was between the government of the Central African Republic's former Séléka coalition of rebel groups, who are mainly from the Muslim minority, and the mainly Christian anti-balaka coalition.
The word seleka means "coalition" or "alliance" in Sango, one of the CAR's two national languages, the other being French. [11] [12] [13]: 125 The international media has shortened the full name Séléka CPSK-CPJP-UFDR (which incorporates the abbreviations for its component organisations) to la Séléka in French and Seleka in English.
On 29 January 2019, 18 people were killed and 23 wounded when UPC fighters opened fire during a funeral ceremony in Ippy. [6] Between 2016 and 2020 UPC killed more than 1300 people. [7]
1 September: Anti-Balaka was formed [20] 6 September: Anti-balaka attacked Zéré on the road between Bouca and Bossangoa, killing at least 55 civilians. [3] 9 September: Anti-balaka attacked Seleka in Bouca. [3] 13 September: Djotodia formally disbanded Séléka. 17 September: Anti-balaka attacked Bossangoa. [3]
On 15 October, three people were killed and a dozen injured in clashes between Anti-balaka and self-defense groups after Anti-balaka fired at a group of Muslim boys playing soccer. [7] Between 26 September and 13 November, further clashes killed at least 100 people, displaced 35,000, and destroyed more than 1,075 buildings.
Abdoulaye Hissène, one of rebel leaders who managed to successfully escape Bangui. In the late evening of 12 August 2016, a convoy of seven vehicles (four pick-ups, two cars and his own company vehicle [2]), with 35 heavily armed men from the PK5 neighbourhood in Bangui's 3rd district and the BSS camp aboard, left Bangui.